Let It Rip Sports Could Reopen in November

is aiming for a Nov. 1 opening after the unanimously recommended Thursday the indoor baseball and basketball facility's request to reopen at a new location on Laraway Road.

The Village Board still needs to give final approval on the special-use permit request that would allow Let It Rip to move in to 9535 W. Laraway Road. The business's original site for five years was on Vans Drive--the new home for --but that lease expired this year, said Dennis Pastko, the general manager for Let It Rip Sports.

Outside of a new location, the move also gives the business an opportunity to expand its services past baseball lessons. The facility will include 12 batting cages, a baseball infield practice area and basketball courts, said owner Kim Baker, who is also Pastko's daughter. 

As part of the terms of the permit, Baker needs to make repairs to the new location's parking lot as well as update its fire alarm and sprinkler system. Neither improvements were deemed to be problems, Pastko said.

"Bottom line, we want to present a facility inside and outside that people want to come to," he said at the meeting.