The Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau’s board on Monday officially endorsed a planned baseball/softball complex planned for Wesselman Park and the Roberts Stadium campus.
Board member David Dunn is the chairman of Destination Evansville, the visitors bureau committee spearheading the proposed sports complex project.
Dunn said the plans for the eight-field complex have gone through some changes as a result of input gathered at public design workshops held earlier this month. Those changes include moving some of the fields closer to the Lloyd Expressway, moving some parts of the complex further from the Good Samaritan Home nearby, adding more shade shelters and adding a buffer between the complex and Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve.
The board voted unanimously to approve the ball field complex, to be funded by a combination of bonds and county innkeepers tax money in an amount not to exceed $18 million.
In other business, the board also agreed to help cover the costs of this year’s Veterans Invitational Soccer Tournament.
The board granted the tournament’s request for $10,000 to help fund the tournament, an annual youth soccer event held at the Goebel Soccer Complex.
This is the ninth year for the tournament. Girls’ teams will play Nov. 6-7, and boys play Nov. 13-14.
Speaking on behalf of the tournament, former Evansville Soccer Club President David Nicholson told the board that this year’s event will draw 300 or more soccer teams from eight different states.
Over the course of both weekends, Nicholson said, tournament visitors will book about 3,600 to 3,800 area hotel rooms.
The total cost to put on the event, Nicholson said, is $130,000.
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