BOT Approves Gregory Street Tennis Complex and Recreation Fields

Date: 7/27/07
Contact: Kathy Beal

Illinois State University’s Board of Trustees today approved moving tennis courts and recreational fields to the University-owned Gregory Street property along with construction of a new parking lot. The project will cost $2.5 million and should be completed by June of 2008.

The four projects, which are included in the Campus Master Plan, will include preparing the site to accommodate storm water drainage and creating a pond that will serve as a detention basin, relocating the tennis courts, relocating several recreational fields and constructing a new 100-car parking lot adjacent to the fields and complex. The four projects will improve some 30 acres of the southern edge of the Gregory Street property.

The new tennis court complex will be used by intercollegiate athletics for practice and competition as well as by University students and staff for recreation. The recreational fields include softball, rugby and soccer fields for student intramural use through Campus Recreation. The parking lot will include permeable concrete to allow water drainage that reduces run off and landscape materials native to Illinois to handle site drainage and slow rainwater run off.