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Officials ready for Oswego to be ‘home of cricket’ as construction on stadium project could begin this year · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Officials ready for Oswego to be home of cricket as
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  Speaker 1: construction on stadium project could begin this year. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Eric Shelkoff, this article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. Work is set to
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  Speaker 1: start in the coming months on a professional cricket stadium
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  Speaker 1: on Oswego's west side that could eventually seat up to
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  Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people. Local and county officials are excited
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  Speaker 1: about the impact Brayborne Stadium, proposed on thirty three point
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  Speaker 1: four to eight acres at the northwest corner of Orchard
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  Speaker 1: Road and Tuscany Trail in Oswego, will have on the area.
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  Speaker 1: There is a lot of excitement. Oswego Village Administrator Dandy
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  Speaker 1: Santo said during an August tenth kickoff event for the
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  Speaker 1: project at Oswego Village Hall. I think you can feel
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  Speaker 1: it in the room. You can certainly feel it in
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  Speaker 1: the community, and beyond the community. We go to conventions
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas and Chicago, and I would say the number
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  Speaker 1: one thing that we hear now when people hear Oswego
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  Speaker 1: is that they associate Oswego with cricket. We hear that
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  Speaker 1: everywhere we go. He said Di Santo said the project
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  Speaker 1: will help generate additional economic development and tourism activity. Oswego
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  Speaker 1: Economic Development Director Kevin Lady agreed. He noted that cricket
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  Speaker 1: is the second most popular sport in the world. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to present all sorts of opportunities elsewhere in Oswego,
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  Speaker 1: Lady said. Oswego resident Paresh Patel, chairman and CEO of
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  Speaker 1: Brayborne Stadium, first brought the proposal to the village in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Bresh has brought such an exciting vision
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  Speaker 1: to his hometown. Kendall County Administrator Christina Burns said, this
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  Speaker 1: will be the home of cricket for the United States.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be more excited than that. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for the students in the area to engage
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  Speaker 1: in professional sports. J P. Dumeny, a South African former
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  Speaker 1: international cricketer, has been appointed the Chief cricket Officer for Brayburn.
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  Speaker 1: What attracted me to Brayborne is its commitment to building
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  Speaker 1: cricket the right way, from schools and academies, through community
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  Speaker 1: cricket clubs, leagues and ultimately the professional game. He said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to help shape that future and contribute to
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  Speaker 1: growing cricket across the United States. Addressing noise traffic concerns.
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  Speaker 1: Nearby residents and others previously voiced concerns about the noise
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  Speaker 1: and traffic that the stadium would generate, Patel has agreed
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  Speaker 1: to install a six foot privacy fence along the property line.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, traffic control management plans would discourage and prevent
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  Speaker 1: stadium traffic from using Tuscany Trail to the west of
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  Speaker 1: the facility. All stadium traffic would be directed to the
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  Speaker 1: Orchard Road access points. Patel has said the location is
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  Speaker 1: well suited for a cricket stadium. Orchard Road is a
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  Speaker 1: highly traveled regional transportation corridor which can handle heavy traffic,
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  Speaker 1: he said. In November twenty twenty three, the majority of
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village trustees voted to approve a special use permit
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  Speaker 1: for Phase one of the project, which involves construction of
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  Speaker 1: the field and wicket, as well as installation of underground
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  Speaker 1: drain tiles. They also recommended approval of preliminary concept plans
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  Speaker 1: for all five phases of the project before the approval
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  Speaker 1: of any future phases. Additional traffic and parking studies, along
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  Speaker 1: with sound studies will be required. As part of the
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  Speaker 1: second phase of the project, the stadium would be open
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  Speaker 1: for use with a seating capacity of two thousand. Phase
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  Speaker 1: three would bring the capacity up to six thousand, and
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  Speaker 1: Phase four would increase it to about fourteen thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: With the seating increase to fourteen thousand, the stadium would
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  Speaker 1: be able to accommodate national cricket events. Future plans involve
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  Speaker 1: completing second and third level stadium seating, which would bring
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  Speaker 1: capacity to twenty five thousand people. As proposed, the stadium
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  Speaker 1: would be a seasonal facility and operate from April to October.
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  Speaker 1: According to the plans, Traffic associated with the stadium will
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  Speaker 1: occur off peak as games are played in the evenings
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  Speaker 1: and on weekends. Patel said he is excited the project
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  Speaker 1: continues to move forward. What excites me is that our
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  Speaker 1: community will benefit from the project, he said. That includes
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  Speaker 1: creating new jobs. He said the project will create between
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and two hundred construction jobs and from fifty
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred permanent jobs when the stadium is complete.