Facilities Development Plan - The University of Nebraska Kearney

Facilities Development Plan
Recreation
Exterior recreation space accounts for 24.0
acres, which are located throughout the main
campus, and across 25th Street. Nearest
the academic core, the football stadium is
open regularly for both formal intramural
use and informal recreational activities. This
is a lighted, synthetic fi eld that is marked
for both football and soccer. The stadium
does not feature a running track. An old and
deteriorated asphalt track was removed from
Foster Field before installation of synthetic
turf and has not been replaced. Property that
is currently undeveloped is being evaluated for
this use.
Intramural softball fi elds defi ne the western
boundary of the main campus. The midcampus
green space serves multiple functions,
including use by the marching band,
intramural sports, track team throwing event
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TYPE OF AREA
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UNK RECREATION INVENTORY
Previous Current
2006 - 2015
practices, and informal recreational activities.
Additional green space south of 25th Street
is used for varsity football practices, summer
sports camps, intramurals, and informal
student recreation.
Current construction of residence halls has
removed sand volleyball courts. Replacement
of this space is being considered near the
residence halls.
Recent expansion of parking near the
football stadium has removed tennis courts.
If additional recreational space were taken
for other uses, we would develop similar
replacement space in the existing south
farmland, and consider developing replacement
tennis courts with this project.
The table below summarizes these exterior
spaces.
COUNT SQUARE FEET COUNT SQUARE FEET
Sand Volleyball Court 2 11,560 0 0
Tennis Courts 4 25,440 0 0
Basketball Courts 4 4,293 4 4,293
Playing Field, Synthetic, Lighted 1 261,250 1 261,250
Multi-Use Field (Matheny Property) 1 547,388 1 547,388
Intramural Fields 3 234,000 3 234,000
UNK Total, s.f. 1,083,931 1,046,931
UNK Total, Acres 24.9 24.0
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