Sports Training Facility Moving Ahead In South Windsor

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — An indoor youth cricket and multi-sport training facility is moving ahead in South Windsor, bringing a year-round practice option to an existing industrial building.

The proposal, listed in town planning records as the Ganisshan Sport Training Facility, would convert space at 140 Commerce Way into an approximately 8,000-square-foot indoor recreational facility. The property is in an industrial zone, and the applicant sought a special exception from the Planning and Zoning Commission for the recreational use.

The commission reviewed the proposal in May, and Hartford Business Journal reported that the application was approved at the panel’s May 26 meeting. Town records identify the application as 26-12P and describe the project as an indoor recreational facility at the Commerce Way property.

Plans call for cricket training lanes with turf flooring and protective netting, along with bowling run-up areas, fielding and catching zones and space for strength and conditioning. The facility would be focused primarily on youth cricket development, while also allowing use for baseball drills, pickleball and badminton.

The application materials also describe seasonal outdoor cricket practice cages behind the building.

The applicant is Gani Ganisshan. Application materials identify the property owner as William St Holdings LLC.

The project would reuse an existing industrial/flex building rather than add new construction. Property records describe 140 Commerce Way as an 8,100-square-foot nonresidential building on about 1.46 acres. The building was constructed in 1989 and last sold in 2022.

Reported operating hours for the facility are 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.

For South Windsor, the proposal represents a new recreational reuse of an industrial building. For cricket families, the facility would provide indoor training space during winter months and bad-weather periods, when outdoor field access can be limited.

A projected opening date was not immediately available from the records reviewed.