GRANDVIEW, MO—Gateway Sports Village has partnered with Liberty Hotel Group to add two new hotels to a sports and entertainment development here. Liberty Hotel Group will build a Best Western Plus that will be integrated on-site with soccer fields, retail, and a multi-sport field house. Liberty is a hotel development, investment, and management company with hotel holdings across the United States.
The Gateway Sports Village is a first-of-its-kind, $300-million dollar sports complex that combines youth soccer fields, retail, office space and hotels. The complex will attract 1.8 million visitors a year, generating thousands of hotel rooms a night for visiting teams, players, and families, according to the company.
“It is very gratifying to create this strategic partnership with Liberty Hotel Group,” said Deron Cherry, managing partner, Gateway Sports Village. “Our vision has been to develop a one-stop destination for soccer and sports’ families. Hotels are an integral part of that vision, and Liberty operates quality hotels that will serve our soccer and sports visitors well.”
“Our confidence in entering the sports’ market is heightened by Gateway’s soccer partner who has been operating and managing large-scale soccer events and tournaments for over 38 years here in Kansas City,” said Larry Patel, president, Liberty Hotel Group. “Having the largest soccer league in America as a master tenant makes this development a winner from day one. We could not be more excited to build our hotels and welcome guests from across the country.”
“This strategic partnership with Liberty enables us to accelerate our planned growth. Together we will concentrate on developing the best new family-oriented sports’ complex,” said Cherry.
Gateway Sports Village is scheduled to open soccer fields in spring 2017, and the first of two hotels is set to begin construction in early 2017.