Long sought athletic facility closer to reality
Discovery Builders, Inc. has entered into an agreement with the City of Pittsburg to design and build an approximately 45,000-square-foot youth center that will include basketball and volleyball courts, among other uses. (See presentation slide show, here – DBI Pittsburg Youth & Sports Facility)
The proposed $3 million facility will be located at John Henry Johnson Park, directly north of West Leland Road in Pittsburg, California. City staff determined this site was best suited for a facility of this nature.
Community leaders have long expressed a need that more public amenities be made available to the local youth of Pittsburg. Meeting this need and providing recreational opportunities for young people has been an ongoing challenge in Pittsburg, since previous youth and community centers closed many years ago.
Public testimony from diverse groups of people and organizations has consistently centered around building a robust youth center, specifically, providing quality athletic facilities. The city currently lacks some of the infrastructure needed to provide ongoing recreational services. As a result of this direct need, Discovery Builders, Inc. and the City of Pittsburg have partnered to lay the groundwork for a future youth center.
While still in the design phase, the yet-to-be-named youth center is a culmination of years of listening and research done on the part of the Discovery Builders leadership team.
As noted by Louis Parsons, president of Discovery Builders, Inc., “As a community builder, we have decades of listening and local knowledge under our belts. We hear what the community wants and needs, and we said building this youth center makes sense for Pittsburg. One of the community benefits we bring is we can use our core building strengths to make Pittsburg and nicer place to live. I’m personally excited to see these basketball and volleyball courts get built. Obviously, this is contingent on a longtime project moving forward.”
Parsons added, “What’s nice about this agreement is we get to support the city and staff by saving them time and resources that are better served running the day-to-day operations of the city. With the pandemic and recent furloughs, a partnership like this is required to create the major public amenities people want.”
The agreement states this facility will begin construction within the next 18 months, contingent on a pending application being approved by the Pittsburg City Council on Monday, Aug. 24.
They are not doing the City or resident of Pittsburg a favor. They said they would build the Center if the City would approve the building of 1500 homes on the hill. Base on traffic, do we need 1500 more homes in Pittsburg. The builder would make around$ 2 hundred thousand dollars off these houses to build what a million recreation. They are only during this for the money, they don’t care about the people or kids of Pittsburgh, if so they would build it for free. Look at the close Girls & Boys Club.
They are not during this for the kids or resident of Pittsburg, they are only during this for the money. If they care they would build it for free, not base on building 1500 homes.
Just basketball courts …!???
What about other sports ? What about if kids like other sports ? Like soccer, tennis, etc
This sounds kind of unfair to the rest of the residents. If the area is going to be change and make the park smaller it should have more options
What about indoor soccer fields, there’s a lots of kids practicing soccer every afternoon at the place ,please consider other kids as well