1859 Sept | Oct 2018

what’s going up?
Renderings courtesy of SRG Partnership
Athletic Pursuits
New athletic facilities, big and small, await for Oregon
written by Sheila G. Miller
FROM TOP Hayward Field will be rebuilt to
accommodate up to 30,000. The project is
expected to be completed in 2020.
MANY TRACK AND FIELD buffs are
in mourning at the changes underway
at historic Hayward Field. The facility,
which was built in 1919 to house
football and grew into the legendary
location of Olympic Trials and USA
Track and Field championships, has
been torn down and will be rebuilt
entirely using funds from the Phil
and Penny Knight Foundation and
other donors.
The new facility is the result of
Eugene hosting the 2021 world
outdoor championships. It will have
an expanded capacity—from 8,500
to 12,900 with room for temporary
seating up to 30,000—and a nine-story
tower with an observation deck, as well
as a locker room and an indoor practice
facility. Missing from the facility will
be the wooden stands where fans have
cheered on racers for nearly a century.
The project was designed by SRG
Partnership, and is expected to open in
spring 2020.
On a much smaller scale, other
communities are getting new
athletic facilities as well. In Bend,
Cascade Indoor Sports is opening
a 48,500-square-foot facility with a
trampoline zone on the first floor, a
“pickleball zone” with eight indoor
courts, and a third-floor viewing area
and lounge.
Near West Linn, a plan is in place to
construct a 95,000-square-foot indoor
lacrosse and soccer facility. The twostory
building in Wankers Corner
would have a full-size soccer field with
seating and other amenities around it.
The original plan was for the facility,
from Fieldhouse Athletics LLC, to be
finished this fall.
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