If You Build It …
The university will begin work on its new outdoor athletic field complex this summer. The 23.8-acre site, located a half-mile from the Newberg campus on the corner of Crestview Drive and Villa Road, was given to George Fox by Ken and Joan Austin. The complex will include practice and game facilities for men’s and women’s soccer, baseball, and softball.
Road work was scheduled to begin in July, and site grading will take place late this fall. Tentative plans call for some or all of the individual venues to be built-out in the summer of 2008. The estimated cost for the Austin Athletic Field Complex is $9.5 million, depending on the final configuration of the fields. The cost does not include the gift of land, estimated at more than $7 million.