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Will a $40M youth sports complex be built in Portage, Kalamazoo, or Texas Twp?

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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Another big step forward has been taken in the effort to bring a $40 million youth sports complex to Kalamazoo County. Local leaders say the process of selecting a location is nearing its final stage.

The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners has officially appointed a 13-member committee tasked with evaluating potential sites for the complex, which could open as early as 2027, according to Discover Kalamazoo.

“This is just a huge win for the community,” County Commissioner Dale DeLeeuw said at Tuesday night’s commissioner meeting, adding that the complex is a project that everyone seems to be in favor of thus far.

Commissioner Abigail Wheeler, one of two commissioners appointed to the committee, echoed the excitement.

“There’s no opposition because there’s not a bad side to this,” Wheeler said. “It’s a win-win-win for us as commissioners. We are providing another opportunity for the youth in our community.”

The new sports complex will need a large plot of land near highways with access to hotels and restaurants, as well as be able to host major tournaments and serve local youth during the week, according to Discover Kalamazoo.

“We’re seeking expertise in areas such as hoteliers, sports experience, tourism, project development, and finance,” Jane Ghosh, executive director of Discover Kalamazoo, said.

Discover Kalamazoo nominated eight of the committee’s 13 members, including business and hospitality leaders like:

  • Jill Bland, Southwest Michigan First
  • Annemarie Boarman, Next Level Sports Center
  • Jane Ghosh, Discover Kalamazoo
  • Brian Persky, Discover Kalamazoo
  • Rich MacDonald, The Hinman Company
  • Dev Patel, representing multiple area hotels
  • Corey Person, youth mentor with United Pursuit
  • Fred Rahme, hotel representative

The county nominated the remaining five members:

  • Kalamazoo County Commissioner Abigail Wheeler
  • Kalamazoo County Commissioner Monteze Morales
  • Kalamazoo Vice Mayor Jeanne Hess
  • Portage City Manager Pat McGinnis
  • Texas Township Superintendent Brooke Hovenkamp

Representatives from all three municipalities reportedly under consideration for the complex are included in the committee, with Portage, Kalamazoo, and Texas Township all in the running.

Currently, only one potential site has been made public — a location near the Air Zoo in Portage.

Corey Person, a local youth basketball mentor for United Pursuit, is on the team helping choose the location and told News Channel 3 that regardless of where it ends up, the project is an opportunity to transform lives for kids in the region.

“You can only take on as many kids as you have space for,” Person said. “We have a lot of kids in Kalamazoo who are looking for these types of opportunities, and we just haven’t had the facilities or structures to do so.”

The proposed complex would include indoor and outdoor facilities capable of hosting large-scale tournaments and training events, particularly for basketball and volleyball.

The $40 million project is being funded through a 4% hotel assessment approved by 82% of voting hotels in Kalamazoo County in April. That cost can be passed on to guests, with the idea being that more sports tourism will bring more hotel bookings.

“This is an effort to fill a gap in the community — for kids locally and for tourism,” Brian Persky, sports event development director at Discover Kalamazoo, said. “Those tournament dollars are going elsewhere right now. We want to keep and generate those in Kalamazoo.”

Persky said the complex could even lead to more hotels being built to meet increased demand, if current hotels reach capacity.

Once a location is finalized, a permanent governing authority will be formed to manage the construction and operations of the facility, according to Discover Kalamazoo.

The idea being that the complex will be used during the week for local youth and on weekends to host tournaments that will draw in traveling teams, and tourism dollars, to the region.

Persky told News Channel 3 he hopes to see the concept he and the Discover Kalamazoo team have been pouring into come to reality as soon as possible. He said, along with his team of 13, there have been countless community members who have poured advice and support into the project to make it successful and to reach all the benchmark goals to this point.

The ultimate goal is to open doors to the complex no later than 2028. “My kids are eight and ten. I tell everyone, ‘I want my kids to play in this facility,’” Persky said.

Discover Kalamazoo anticipates a decision for where to officially break ground will be proposed within the next few weeks, and then county commissioners will send out an official notice to the public regarding the project.

Stay with News Channel 3 for new developments as this project continues to take shape.



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Bowling alley’s new owner aims to improve | News, Sports, Jobs

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Jesse LaRose of Gladstone eyes up the pins at UP North Lanes while celebrating his brother’s birthday last month. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press)

ESCANABA — The sole bowling alley in Delta County, now called UP North Lanes, passed to new ownership this summer.

For more than 60 years, it operated as Bowl-a-Rama. The business still hosts a variety of leagues, offers reasonably-priced entertainment and has a bar and kitchen.

UP North Lanes and Sports Bar owner Albert Danz Jr. has made a few changes since he took over the business in August, and has plans for more. Having worked at Bowl-a-Rama for 15 years, the past seven as manager, Danz bought the place in order to make sure Escanaba’s bowling alley could be the best it could be. He changed the name to reflect the transition and to let people know the destination has entered a new era.

Results of scores for bowling leagues at the Bowl-a-Rama, in addition to advertisements for a 16-lane facility called the same at 2510 First Ave. N. in Escanaba, began being published in the Daily Press in 1960. However, it appears a reconstruction of the place happened a few years later, as a contract with builders was entered in 1963 and a grand opening was announced in 1964. The owner of Bowl-a-Rama was Delta Recreation Corp., made up of board members and shareholders R. James Bichler, Clayton C. Tanguay and Bernard St. Onge.

Several parties involved in the construction of the bowling alley in the early ’60s went to court for a yearslong battle when the general contractor, Peninsula Construction Co. of Iron Mountain, filed for bankruptcy after the building’s construction and failed to pay numerous subcontractors.

Sixty-plus-year-old machinery reracks bowling pins behind the scenes at UP North Lanes in Escanaba, formerly Bowl-a-Rama. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press)

But during that debacle and afterwards, business at the bowling alley grew. A Flat Rock man named Ken Smith bowled the first 300 in January 1964. Several leagues made use of the lanes. A retail shop for bowling supplies was on premises, and a lounge provided limited food and drinks.

In 1970, a Greyhound bus station was built onto the west side of the Bowl-a-Rama, and the bowling alley’s facilities were made accessible to bus passengers through connecting interior doors.

The parking lot was paved later in 1970.

After a bowling alley in Gladstone closed, another eight lanes were added, bringing the Bowl-a-Rama from 16 lanes to 24.

In 1996, Ken and Cherie Lueneburg and Bryan and Lynn Burak purchased the bowling alley from Tanguay and St. Onge, who reportedly were brothers-in-law.

Vehicles fill the parking lot Saturday at UP North Lanes in Escanaba. The sign will probably be changed within the next year to reflect the new name and ownership. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press)

Before purchasing the Bowl-a-Rama, and for a couple years after, the Lueneburgs and Buraks also operated the Holiday Bowl per a lease. That place was at 2625 Ludington St. in Escanaba, now occupied by Riverside Ford.

After the Bowl-a-Rama passed to the Lueneburgs and Buraks in the ’90s, the second set of owners remodeled the place.

“Basically, we redid the whole bar, changed it around a little bit. We put in the kitchen … fryer and pizza oven,” Ken said.

They had also installed automated golf machines, which remained for about five years.

Ken proudly reported that the Bowl-a-Rama was integral in getting bowling teams started at Upper Peninsula high schools. A tournament bringing together five-member teams from high schools in Escanaba, Menominee, Kingsford, Houghton, Marquette, Ishpeming, Norway and Baraga took place at the Bowl-a-Rama in December 1996.

At UP North Lanes in Escanaba, Eric LaPalm releases a bowling ball down lane 24 while Allison Peltin watches before taking her own turn on the neighboring lane. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press)

Another major event at the local business was the Wisconsin State men’s senior bowling tournament, Ken said — as he recalled, Bowl-a-Rama hosted more than 200 teams at that tournament in 2006.

Cyber bowling — with blacklights and deals — was introduced under the ownership of the Lueneburgs and Buraks. They also started a bumper league for children, another legacy that continues for kids as young as age 3.

A nonprofit league — in which a portion of proceeds raised goes toward the winning team’s charity of choice — began about 2009 and remains operating at the Escanaba bowling alley today.

A trophy supply business also began at the Bowl-a-Rama, managed by Ken. That facet did not transfer to Danz; Ken still works there but is looking to sell it.

The space that had been occupied by the Greyhound station was converted into rental units now occupied by Bark Boulevard Pet Salon, Bloom Speech Therapy Services and The Golden Hour Studio.

This clipping from the Jan. 25, 1974, Daily Press shows that the Escanaba bowling alley’s involvement with youth has been going on for decades.

Danz, who became a Bowl-a-Rama employee in 2011, has been bowling since a very young age and has experience working at other bowling alleys.

Originally from Addison, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Danz worked at a bowling alley in the Chicago area years ago, one called Red Carpet Lanes in Green Bay, and managed High Five Lanes in Munising for a few years before coming to Escanaba.

Having now lived in Esky for 20 years, Danz “wouldn’t trade it for the world,” he said.

When the previous owners were ready to retire after nearly 30 years in the business, Danz stepped up to purchase it, with the sale finalized Aug. 1.

“I just didn’t want to see it going to anybody or a corporation — who knows what they would have done with it,” Danz said. “I’ve been here so long, and I’ve been in the bowling business pretty much all my life, so I didn’t want to see it possibly go away.”

Nicholas LaRose sends a bowling ball down after one last standing pin, hoping for a spare. (R. R. Branstrom)

But instead of keeping it the same, Danz has plans for making the old bowling alley better.

Early changes include revamping the kitchen with new equipment, making the menu available on DoorDash, adding three new TVs and obtaining an NFL Ticket so people can watch football and hockey games in the bar, getting a loan to fix the building’s leaky roof, hiring additional staff and changing the name.

Though the sign out front still says “Bowl-a-Rama,” Danz hopes to replace it in the spring so people can more visibly tell UP North Lanes and Sports Bar is under new ownership.

He’s considering calling the bar portion “The 11th Frame.”

Some things will stay the same — for instance, the homemade pizza that people have gotten to know and love in recent years will continue with the same recipe.

The place offers a surprisingly thorough food menu for a bowling alley. Appetizers, loaded tater tots, burgers, steak sandwiches, wings and quesadillas come out of the kitchen, available for enjoying in or taking out.

The kitchen opens at 11:30 a.m. every day. Food is served until 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursday, until 11:30 p.m. Saturdays and until 6 p.m. Sundays.

The bowling alley and bar are open from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Wednesdays; 11:30 to 1 a.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturdays; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays.

Up North Lanes has leagues for a variety of ages and skill levels.

“We accommodate every age group,” Danz said. And even if people are terrible bowlers, the game and socializing are entertaining. “If you go out, you have fun.”

Birthday parties, company Christmas parties and other events utilize the bowling alley as well. Packages include bowling time, pizza and pop.

“It’s very affordable for families,” Danz said.

May through September is the busiest time, he reported. Within a handful of years, he’d like expand the bar to bring in cornhole — an activity usually relegated to outdoors in the summertime.

More immediate improvements will include an expansion to the arcade. Danz has already purchased new arcade games to be installed.

He also would like to take out the railings and tables to bring in more modern seating and counters near the lanes.

Danz intends to move the pro shop to a larger area that now is an office and expand upon the product selection.

UP North Lanes and Sports Bar may be reached at 906-786-6500. Some information may be found at 906bowling.com.

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R. R. Branstrom can be reached at 906-786-2021, ext. 140, or rbranstrom@dailypress.net.



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Super Bowl 60: Santa Clara youth soccer league displaced as NFL plans to take over park for operations center

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) — Starting Jan. 5, the NFL will be setting up its Super Bowl media center, halftime show production and other operations at the Youth Soccer Park right next to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

This means hundreds of youth soccer players will have to find somewhere else to play.

The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League has 1,500 players. We spoke with Board Member Steve Robertson.

“There’s a great deal of anxiety. Do we have alternative field space? Because even though there are grass fields in the city of Santa Clara, there a very few with lights,” Robertson said.

The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League is hustling to figure out solutions. On Wednesday night, a parent rented out a tower light to see how well it does.

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“We’re scrambling right now, to be honest, without a concrete plan in place as to how the city or other constituents can help us,” Robertson said.

The Youth Soccer Park has two grass fields and one turf field. The NFL plans to use this space from Jan. 5 to Feb. 22, but those in the soccer community are concerned it will take more time than that.

The soccer league says issues arose with the last Super Bowl at Levi’s in 2016.

“It takes a number of weeks to figure out the best way to return the field to normal condition. So in the last go around, the field was trashed candidly,” Robertson said.

In a statement to ABC7, Parks and Recreation Director Damon Sparacino said the agreement requires the NFL to repair any damaged fields.

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The NFL has also pledged financial contributions and help with finding alternate soccer fields.

Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor just hopes there’s no damage to the turf field.

“This is the big rub, because if they have to replace that synthetic turf field, that will take six to nine months if we’re lucky,” Gillmor said.

She said soccer is the most popular sport in the city.

“I want to make sure if there’s damage, it’s repaired, the fields are returned expeditiously, because I also want to have events at the Youth Soccer Park leading up to World Cup in June,” Gillmor said.

MORE: NFL, Bay Area Host Committee announce venues for Super Bowl 60 events

Before Super Bowl 50, the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League sued the NFL over use of the fields on short notice.

This year, the city said talks with the youth soccer groups and the NFL started back in August.

Robertson said with large scale events, things happen in the 11th hour. He hopes they can take this opportunity to build lasting partnerships.

“We just want to make sure that the kids are not forgotten in the process, that’s all,” Robertson said.

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Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority gets help with Bayou Towers

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Dec. 22, 2025, 4:10 a.m. CT

  • A Louisiana Senator’s office is now involved to help navigate the bureaucratic delays stalling the demolition of Bayou Towers.
  • The demolition is caught between four entities: FEMA, HUD, the local parish government, and the housing authority.
  • While HUD approved the demolition, FEMA has not yet completed its assessment to determine if the building’s damage exceeds 50% of its value.
  • Recent incidents of falling debris have raised community concerns about the building being a potential health hazard.

Officials say a Louisiana Senator has stepped in to help navigate delays in the demolition of Bayou Towers.

Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority Director Nikita Gilton updated the commissioners Dec. 17 on the status of Bayou Towers at the first meeting since pieces of the structure began falling Dec. 5. According to Gilton, workers had to secure floors 8 through 11 and remove the awnings. With that work complete, the building once again remains in limbo, but Gilton said elected officials are stepping in to help them out.

“State Rep. Jessica Domangue reached out to us and put us in touch with Sen. Bill Cassidy’s Office,” Gilton said. “After I spoke with the chair and our attorney, I signed a waiver to let Mr. Cassidy’s office speak to FEMA on our behalf.”



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Meet 10 new coaches for the winter season

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The high school sports winter season on the Cape and Islands, not only brings a change in the weather, but also to the teams. The roster changes with new players, but also to the coaching staff.

Coaching a team of high school athletes for the first time is not an easy task to take on. It could be a match made in heaven, or it could have growing pains the first year.



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Effects of learning, exercise, and game curriculum model on the physical fitness of preschool children aged 3–6: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

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