Bookings at the massive Spooky Nook Sports Complex, currently under construction in Butler County, are already filling up.
Every weekend from April to August is booked, according to Sam Beiler, founder and owner of Spooky Nook Sports. He said 8,000 to 10,000 people are expected per day every weekend for a variety of tournaments including basketball, volleyball and wrestling.
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“Our bookings are solid,” Beiler told Hamilton City Council during a presentation on Wednesday. “We’re really pleased with the interest. That interest has been strong now for months.”
What is the Spooky Nook Sports Complex?
The city of Hamilton is partnering with Spooky Nook Sports, the largest indoor sports complex in the country near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to redevelop the former Champion Paper Mill property, a 40-plus acre brownfield site on the city’s riverfront.
The 1.2 million-square-foot project is comprised of an athletics complex as well as a hotel and convention center.
Once completed, Spooky Nook Sports at Champion Mill will be the second largest convention center space in the Tristate area and the largest indoor sports complex in North America.
Construction continues on Hamilton sports complex after weather setbacks
Construction of the athletics complex faced some setbacks due to a weather-related steel collapse at building 500, a large indoor turf field, in March, Beiler said. The steel has been detached and will likely be removed from the site by the end of next week, though there are no estimates regarding the timing of a rebuild.
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“We’re very happy to see that getting cleaned up and taken off the site so we can get a fresh start there again,” he said, adding progress has started picking up in the last month to six weeks.
A combined 200 workers were at the site on Wednesday, of which 40 were drywall hangers and finishers working on the hotel, Beiler estimated.
Spook Nook Sports Complex adds new tenant
He also announced the addition of another tenant: the Ohio Orthopedic Associates of Southwest Ohio. According to a news release, the practice will occupy 21,287 square feet of the athletics complex.
“We are thrilled to build this relationship with Spooky Nook and look forward to extending world-class sports medicine to the region, as a long-term partnership in health & wellness for The Nook’s patrons and our patients,” David Mohler, the practice’s CEO, said in a statement.
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Previously announced tenants are Municipal Brew Works and Petals & Wicks.
‘It’s gonna be just and incredible ‘wow”
Beiler also showed council a minute-and-a-half-long video rendering of the hotel and conference center’s interior, which features 233 hotel rooms and 16 conference rooms, with the largest ballroom stretching out to approximately 8,000 square feet. There will also be available 60,000 square feet of tenant/lease space.
“When out citizens and our visitors go inside that building it’s gonna be just and incredible ‘wow,'” Hamilton Mayor Pat Moeller said after watching the video.
