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By JACOB DeROCHIE fields should be installed,Tup-
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jderochie@cortlandstandard.net The baseball fields under
CORTLANDVILLE—Two construction will comply with .
baseball fields able to accom- dimensions required to have
modate teams from Little NCAA-sanctioned games. The
League to college levels are pitcher's mound, bases and ,
expected to be completed by fencing is all movable to ac-
October and in use by next commodate the style of base- _
spring. ball beingplayed,Tupper said. '4"" -r m
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Town Supervisor Richard Tup- Tupper said.
per Thursday. Jim Dempsey,director of the °>
Phase one of the 100-acre Cortland County Convention e - � '`
park along Route 13 in South and Visitors Bureau, expects `
Cortland includes leveling the the complex, once complete, •
site to accommodate playing will increase tourism in the
surfaces, building the two ball county through sports tourna- '-
fields and installing a parking ments. "It will have significant
lot, walking paths and utili- impact to overnight stays and
ties. dining,"he said Thursday.
Around 10 acres are under While the county already
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construction now. "Ground does work with sports tour- * � . ,
work is the most tedious at this naments, this could open the Joe McIntyre/staff photographer
Point,"Tupper said. market up to the next level, Construction is underway Thursday at the Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex in Cortland-
An estimated timeline for Dempsey said. ville. The first phase includes two baseball fields,a parking lot and other improvements.
completion on phase one is The complex will be unique town in return for the 6.1-acre three sand volleyball courts. pleted within 10 years and ac-
Oct. 22,Tupper said. to Central New York,Dempsey Citizens Park land on Route In early May, Tioga County cording to a feasibility study
There is no timeline set for said. "Possibly of all upstate," 281 adjacent to the Gutchess based ZMK Construction Inc. by Chicago-based Market and
phase two of the project, as he said. facility on McLean Road. of Apalachin won a $3.9 mil- Feasibility Advisors stated the
engineers are still determin- The site was previously The completed sports com- lion bid for phase one of the complex would support 102
ing the amount of money that owned by Gutchess Lumber, plex will have four baseball di- project. jobs and create $2.4 million a
twill be needed and how many which swapped the land to the amonds,eight soccer fields and The park could be com- year in spending.