Construction of D’Youville College’s $3 million athletic complex on the corner of Fourth Street
and Porter Avenue is underway and will feature the school's first ever-home athletic field.
The college also is building
a 4,000 square foot field house, which will feature two locker rooms, an office
and a medical facility for a trainer.
The college started
planning for the field about five years ago when it purchased the land where
the original Ted’s Hot Dogs restaurant
used to be. It took two and half years to go through all of the environmental
studies, but that sale went through in the spring, said Ed Cogan, the associate
vice president for operations at D’Youville.
D’Youville separately purchased
the remaining land for the field from the New York State Thruway Authority and
from a homeowner who just “knocked on the college’s door one day and asked if
anyone would like to buy her house,” Cogan said.
“It really kind of came
together,” said Cogan.
The severe winter weather
delayed the construction until mid-February for
the 3.5-acre soccer, baseball and lacrosse field, said Cogan. Despite the construction delay, the field
will be completed in August. By Peter Murphy and Bill Schutt
