Greenheck Turner Fieldhouse. Image courtesy: WAOW TV
WESTON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – The Greenheck Turner Community Center is nearly complete structurally, but not functionally.
The D.C. Everest School District’s latest project is on track to be completed by this fall, and district officials say the possibilities will be endless for what it can host once open. “I think people will be in awe when they come into the building,” said Aaron Mull, the Director of Community Services for the district.
It will feature a turf field with a track around the outside, as well as sports simulators, seating that can handle around 1,000 people, and several meeting rooms.
“Really, anything that anyone can dream up can be done in this facility because it’s so large,” said Lindsey Lewitzke with the D.C. Everest Education Foundation.
Per the Education Foundation’s website, the fieldhouse is a $35 million project consisting entirely of private funds.
“The need was approached to us in terms of, we need this for the community, there’s no indoor space to be able to come and play that spring sport or that fall sport or that winter sport all year long,” Lewitzke said.
Sports will likely be the main draw, but officials say you won’t need to be an athlete to get good use out of the building. “We hear walking is a big thing, people want to walk. They walked the mall, the mall’s not there anymore. They walk Cedar Creek. So there’ll be a track around the outside with turf in the middle, and we’re also opening it up to people to walk during the day as well,” Mull said. He adds the district plans to use the facility to host family movie nights on video boards that will later be added.
District Superintendent Casey Nye told WAOW several construction materials were pre-ordered and there have been few, if any, challenges related to shortages.
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