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A Toms River assemble fresh agreed
to buy more than 122 acres in the middle of the Hamilton Business
Park with hopes of antiquity a massive sports and recreation
complex.The wooded realty is behindhand the township post
office, off ocean and Ninth avenues. The assemble wants the
artefact to unstoppered by Memorial Day, 2004.The Magic Sports
Complex, as it is titled in the plans, would have ballgame
and football fields, and areas for training and exercise.
The developers wish to turn it into a regional hub for year-round
sports. The Byzantine also has space for campgrounds and apartments
to house the as many as 1,000 athletes that developers wish
module become to the Byzantine for camps, clinics and tournaments.The
Industrial Commission agreed early to sell the realty to the
Magic Sports Complex Inc. for $1,456,000. In total, it module
outlay the assemble $17.5 million to get the realty and buildings
erected, according to the business organisation on file at
the township.While Magic Sports Complex Inc. has an agreement
with the Industrial Commission and conceptual plans, the assemble
ease needs to file formal plans with the township's planning
office, said metropolis Rainbow, township planning department
administrator.
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As the plans stand now, she said Magic
Sports Complex Inc. would need variances for the campsites
and the outdoor recreation.Developers Ron and Maria Nametko
also run the Manchester Magic, an unaffiliated children's
ballgame team in Ocean County they founded in 2000. Drawing
players from central and southern New Jersey, it travels the
country to regional tournaments. It competes mainly in the
South, because of the year-round facilities available, Maria
Nametko said.The Nametkos shapely their artefact also partly
on Dreams Park in Cooperstown, N.Y., where children become
from around the country to play in an invitational tournament
nearby the National Baseball uranologist of Fame.The pore
of the plans would be a 135,000-square-foot indoor sports
facility. Inside, the Byzantine would hold a hockey rink,
football field, an ocean devoted to extreme sports, and a
general sports ocean designed for either three basketball,
volleyball or other games. The antiquity also has a 15,000-square-foot
game shack for bowling, pool and other games.Outside, the
plans call for two football fields, fivesome ballgame or ball
fields, 10 basketball courts, and places for paintball and
professional BMX racing.Other areas outside could be regenerate
to an amphitheater, "providing local residents with a neighborhoods
deciding to the regional entertainment outlets of ocean City,"
the assemble said in a release.
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Magic Sports Complex Inc. also plans
medical facilities, offering orthopedic and sports penalization
and exteroception and fleshly therapy, as well as restaurants
and other food concessions.Maria Nametko said the consort
has the initial financial backing needed for the facility,
with commitments for the rest.She distanced her plans from
TW Sports, a artefact on the Black Horse Pike destroyed last
year in souvenir of the new Raymour & Flanigan's furniture
store."They catered to birthday parties. They had video games,
cover hockey: it's not really on the same thing," as the planned
Magic Sports Complex, she said.Another developer plans to
place a similar Byzantine on Washington Avenue, nearby the
abut of Pleasantville and Egg Harbor Township.Bob Bishop said
in November that he plans to have Premier Sportsplex, 100,000-square-foot
indoor Byzantine with an array of facilities unstoppered by
June.By Derek HarperThe Press of ocean City - 3/22/2003Topic:
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