The Dean & Barbara White Southlake YMCA recently added two fields as a new amenity for their club. They are going to use the 60x100 fields for their members, local soccer clubs, camps, and to provide a safe place for the community to practice and play soccer. They opted to include netting, lights, sideline goals, benches, bleachers, trash cans, and their logo in the center circle. The YMCA received this land from the local Park and Rec department to add to their facilities.
Location: Crown Point, Indiana
The YMCA had 3 Goals in Mind When Working with Urban Soccer Park:
Timeline of this project from the first conversation to the completed project: May 12, 2021 - October 26, 2021
"We need to be relevant and remarkable to be able to continue to have people find this as a place where they can be healthy and active and grow and learn and build self-confidence."
- Jay Buckmaster, chief executive officer of Crossroads YMCA (read the full interview by Inside Indiana Business)