Ohio's GaREAT Sports Complex

~ Geneva-area Recreation, Education Athletic Trust (GaREAT) is open in Harpersfield Township

~ GaREAT is just a short 10 minute drive south of The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake

~ The $100 million indoor/outdoor sports complex is to include two 150,000+ square foot buildings and an indoor stadium

~ Visit the GaREAT website for more information and for game/tournament schedules 

Prime real estate at Interstate 90 and Route 534 will be developed into a $100 million indoor/outdoor, not-for-profit sports campus.   The GaREAT 110-acre, already-in-progress complex, which includes a stadium for school use and a commercial aspect with a hotel and restaurant and “high end” office space for hospitals, schools, colleges and other partners, with many parcels visible from Interstate 90.

The complex is expected to bring in young athletes and Olympians from across the country and from around the world, for training and competition.  The construction of the GaREAT indoor-outdoor sports center is expected to bring a windfall of retail and hospitality businesses to the Harpersfield area.

The Geneva area Recreation, Education, Athletic Trust (GaREAT) campus will include two 150,000 square-foot buildings and an indoor stadium. The buildings will hold volleyball, tennis and basketball courts and weightlifting and elliptical equipment will be completed by February 2009. The stadium complex, which will hold 4,000 seats, an all weather track, locker rooms and an artificial turf soccer field, will be ready for use in September 2009. The second building will be completed in the winter of 2009.

“Perhaps the one of the most exciting aspects of the plans is the 300-meter, eight-lane indoor running track, which will be the only one of its kind in the country,” developer, Ron Clutter said.

We will see tremendous growth in the area as people come from across the tri-state region to use this facility. When people in this state see this building, they will be beating down our door with developments and investments,” Ron Clutter said. “Our businesses, restaurants, hotels and the lodge will thrive as thousands of people every week come through the county to use this facility. They will spend time here and see what a great place our county is.”