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Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex
Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex is a sports and recreation complex on the main campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It contains both facilities for general student body fitness and recreation, as well as facilities dedicated to Northwestern Wildcats sports programs (the university's teams in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I). Wildcats facilities include competition and practice venues, training and team meeting facilities, offices, locker rooms, dining facilities, and an academic support services center.
The complex traces its history to the opening of the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion in 1987 and the opening of an adjacent sports field complex in 1997. In the 2010s, the existing facilities were renovated and new facilities added to the complex, which was collectively dubbed the "Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex". The project elevated the complex into a main hub for all student athletics program.
The complex is located at the north end of Northwestern University's main Evanston Campus, abutting the shore of Lake Michigan.
In 1987, Northwestern University opened the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, which contained sports facilities including the Norris Aquatics Center.
In 1997, fields were constructed on the lakefront near the sports pavilion as part of what was originally known as the "Leonard B. Thomas Sports Complex". The multi-field complex was built at a cost $3.5 million to provide home fields for the university's soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey programs on the university's main campus. In 2000, the university began construction on the $10 million Combe Tennis Center, an expansion of the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion that added a six-court indoor tennis facility.
In 2010, the university announced a materplan to redevelop the complex with the addition of a new practice facility. A study by the architectural firm Populous was presented to university trustees the following year. The initial plans were to build a new multipurpose practice facility that would host both indoor sports practices, and contain 2,500 seats that would allow it to hold events. The plan also included a new 1,200 car parking structure, to be built atop existing surface parking lots to the west of the sports pavilion. Plans also included the construction of a new outdoor practice field, a new diving well in the Norris Aquatics Center, and the addition of new locker rooms, weight rooms, fitness facilities, and sports medicine facilities. The planned expansion was estimated to cost $220 million. The proposal faced some criticism both over its high cost and its use of a scenic piece of the campus' lakeshore for the purposes of serving the university's athletics programs rather than its academics program. Despite such critiques, the plan was approved. In November 2012, university trustees voted to advance the plans to expand the lakefront sports facilities. Due to its lakefront location, the project needed a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as well as permissions from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
The parking garage component of the project faced some resistance and delay in approval from the Evanston Preservation Commission.
Groundbreaking for the project took place in November 2015. Using funding gifted during its "We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern" fundraising campaign for campus facilities upgrades, the university renovated and expanded its existing lakefront facilities, and constructed new facilities to transform the corner of campus into the newly dubbed "Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex". The project included the construction of the Ryan Fieldhouse (which houses Wilson Field, an indoor training field), and the Walter Athletics Center (which houses support services for student athletes and offices for various sports programs). The project finished with the August 2018 opening of the Ryan Field House and the Walter Athletics Center.
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Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex
Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex is a sports and recreation complex on the main campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It contains both facilities for general student body fitness and recreation, as well as facilities dedicated to Northwestern Wildcats sports programs (the university's teams in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I). Wildcats facilities include competition and practice venues, training and team meeting facilities, offices, locker rooms, dining facilities, and an academic support services center.
The complex traces its history to the opening of the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion in 1987 and the opening of an adjacent sports field complex in 1997. In the 2010s, the existing facilities were renovated and new facilities added to the complex, which was collectively dubbed the "Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex". The project elevated the complex into a main hub for all student athletics program.
The complex is located at the north end of Northwestern University's main Evanston Campus, abutting the shore of Lake Michigan.
In 1987, Northwestern University opened the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, which contained sports facilities including the Norris Aquatics Center.
In 1997, fields were constructed on the lakefront near the sports pavilion as part of what was originally known as the "Leonard B. Thomas Sports Complex". The multi-field complex was built at a cost $3.5 million to provide home fields for the university's soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey programs on the university's main campus. In 2000, the university began construction on the $10 million Combe Tennis Center, an expansion of the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion that added a six-court indoor tennis facility.
In 2010, the university announced a materplan to redevelop the complex with the addition of a new practice facility. A study by the architectural firm Populous was presented to university trustees the following year. The initial plans were to build a new multipurpose practice facility that would host both indoor sports practices, and contain 2,500 seats that would allow it to hold events. The plan also included a new 1,200 car parking structure, to be built atop existing surface parking lots to the west of the sports pavilion. Plans also included the construction of a new outdoor practice field, a new diving well in the Norris Aquatics Center, and the addition of new locker rooms, weight rooms, fitness facilities, and sports medicine facilities. The planned expansion was estimated to cost $220 million. The proposal faced some criticism both over its high cost and its use of a scenic piece of the campus' lakeshore for the purposes of serving the university's athletics programs rather than its academics program. Despite such critiques, the plan was approved. In November 2012, university trustees voted to advance the plans to expand the lakefront sports facilities. Due to its lakefront location, the project needed a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as well as permissions from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
The parking garage component of the project faced some resistance and delay in approval from the Evanston Preservation Commission.
Groundbreaking for the project took place in November 2015. Using funding gifted during its "We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern" fundraising campaign for campus facilities upgrades, the university renovated and expanded its existing lakefront facilities, and constructed new facilities to transform the corner of campus into the newly dubbed "Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex". The project included the construction of the Ryan Fieldhouse (which houses Wilson Field, an indoor training field), and the Walter Athletics Center (which houses support services for student athletes and offices for various sports programs). The project finished with the August 2018 opening of the Ryan Field House and the Walter Athletics Center.