maurice
06-26-2007, 11:50 AM
One plan would bring a new Frontier League team -- and a $26 million sports complex -- to the McHenry County College campus in Crystal Lake. The college would build the complex and pay for it in part through a 20-year lease with the baseball team, according to developer Mark Houser, one of the partners in the effort. Houser said he and other investors are businessmen who hope to earn a profit in a venture that they say could also be a point of civic pride. An agreement with the college has been signed, and now Crystal Lake officials are weighing its merits. Organizers hope to be playing ball by 2009.
Another proposal would start a four-team league in tiny Harvard, in the northwest corner of McHenry County. Discussion of that project just began. But if approved, it will create a privately funded $3 million stadium by 2009 with seating for 6,000 fans in a village of about 9,000 residents.
Linky (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-minors_26jun26,1,561122.story?coll=chi-news-hed)
Another proposal would start a four-team league in tiny Harvard, in the northwest corner of McHenry County. Discussion of that project just began. But if approved, it will create a privately funded $3 million stadium by 2009 with seating for 6,000 fans in a village of about 9,000 residents.
Linky (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-minors_26jun26,1,561122.story?coll=chi-news-hed)