Planned Adult Sports Complex Takes Shape

ROUND ROCK, TX -- Round Rock city officials have scheduled an upcoming open house for residents wanting to learn more about the planned Adult Sports Complex at Old Settlers Park.

Once built, the complex will feature a pair of softballs fields, and a so called “super-flex” field to accommodate softball, flag football, soccer and other activities. The 29-acre site is the future home for all leagues and sporting activities now staged at McNeil Park.

The complex will replace the McNeil Park site that currently hosts adult sporting activities. The Round Rock City Council in August authorized the sale of McNeil Park to restaurateur James Michael Farr, owner of the Nutty Brown Café. Farr paid $1.1 million for the acreage, proceeds of which will be used in conjunction with bond revenue to build the new complex.

City spokesman Will Hampton said the open house is being scheduled to secure input from residents into the design of the complex. Plans for the new complex also call for a covered basketball court, sand volleyball courts and a covered soccer field with artificial turf.

Parks and recreation department’s spokesman Roger Heaney provided a rendering of the planned complex (above). Katie Baker, park development manager, said the city hopes to start construction on the complex sometime next year but an official timeline hasn’t been set.

“We don’t know that yet, and this will be the initial concept given to the public,” she said. ”We’ll base on their feedback to have more revisions before we take it to council. Our goal is to accelerate this timeline as quickly as possible because we need the fields ASAP.”

The open house is scheduled for Dec. 15 at the Baca Center Grand Room, 301 W. Bagdad Ave., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.