Pittsburgh Getting Major New Sports And Medical Complex

PITTSBURGH, PA - The Pittsburgh Riverhounds and Allegheny Health Network are teaming to build a new health and sports complex. The AHN Montour Health and Sports Medicine Center will be located in Coraopolis and is slated to be completed in 2021.

The 78-acre complex will serve as the Riverhounds' practice site and the home for the Riverhounds Development Academy. The academy trains more than 5,000 youth soccer players between the ages of four and 18.

Close to I-79, the complex will have 10 turfed FIFA regulation-sized soccer and multipurpose fields, including two full-sized indoor fields, in addition to a 20,000-square-foot Allegheny Health Network medical facility providing a comprehensive range of clinical programs, such as orthopaedic and sports medicine services, physical and occupational therapy, a concussion diagnosis and management program, and sports performance training.

The medical facility will also include walk-in primary care with extended hours seven days a week.

“I would like to thank Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network for partnering with us to construct this marvelous facility,” Tuffy Shallenberger, Riverhounds owner and complex developer, said in a statement. “This facility will not only be beneficial to our professional team and academy, but to thousands of kids across western Pennsylvania who are involved with athletics. "

The first of two construction phases is scheduled to be completed in summer 2o2o. This includes AHN's medical facility and an attached indoor soccer field, summing approximately 152,000 square feet. The second phase will consist of adding the additional athletic fields.

Two of these outdoor soccer fields are already completed and in use.

The project's cost was not disclosed.