Crestview Local Schools could be getting a brand new Athletic Complex for its K -12 students.

The facility is expected to be built in the parking lot right next to the current football field and will have full men's and women's locker rooms, a turf area and a weight room on the second floor. 

“Just an all around field house concept but in a more constrained per square footage for our student athletes,” Dan Hill, Superintendent of Crestview Local Schools said. 

The complex will also include retractable batting cages for baseball and softball teams and will be a space for the wrestling team to practice. Hill said the complex will also be used for physical fitness classes.

Currently, construction crews are onsite at the school tearing down old buildings to put up a new K-12 school. That project is funded by a 2.84 mill bond levy that voters passed in 2019. That new building will not have locker rooms or weight rooms, making the complex the main hub for student athletes. 

The complex is a separate project from the K-12 building construction. It is expected to cost around $1.4 million and would come from the schools general fund. 

“It would've been money that we would've had to utilize in that new building but instead of putting it into the new building we just allocated it in a separate facility that could be used 24/7, 365 if we so desire,” Superintendent Hill said. 

 

Blueprint for first floor of Crestview Athletic Complex
Blueprint for first floor of Crestview Athletic Complex  

Hill said if they included this complex in the new school plans it would've cost two to three times more. 

“It looks like an add on but it’s not,”Hill said. “It’s really taking it out of a structure that the cost set was too prohibitive and moving it to something that gives us an expansion of facilities that every athlete can utilize.”

A construction company will present its plans to the board to review at a special meeting on Monday, April 22. 

The superintendent said they expect the Athletic Complex to be completed by January of 2025. 

The K-12 Building is expected to be completed in the fall of 2026.