The GenPlay Sports baseball complex in Bedford will replace the three ball fields with turf under a new, extended operating agreement it reached with the city of Bedford, which owns the property.
At its Jan. 13 meeting, Bedford City Council unanimously agreed to extend GenPlay’s existing five-year agreement to 15 years and include two five-year renewal options, for a total of up to 25 years. Sunfield Development, which operates as GenPlay at Bedford’s Generations Park at Boys Ranch, will invest about $535,000 in adding turf to the three ball fields.
“I think he already has the front end loaders already on a trailer ready to come to Bedford,” Mark Long, the city’s parks, recreation and facilities director, told the council.
GenPlay will do the work in two phases, with work being done on two fields to start with. Long estimated that work will start almost immediately, “weather permitting,” and be done quickly. On the third field, GenPlay “is looking to start that in the summer.” It will take two to three weeks, he said.
The turf fields will be safer, more durable and easier to maintain, he said.
Construction has begun on the baseball fields at Bedford’s Generations Park at Boys Ranch, 2801 Forest Ridge Drive. (Courtesy photo | City of Bedford)
If the city has to terminate the contract for cause, the improvements would become the city’s property. If the city terminates the contract for any other reason, it would owe Sunfield an amortized amount based on the company’s cost of replacing the fields, Long said.
Council members raised questions about Bedford’s lack of free baseball fields, but Long said GenPlay is noted for allowing groups to use the fields for free if they’re available.
GenPlay pays the city a $72,000 annual base fee and pays the city 10% of revenue from rentals for tournaments, clinics, lessons and leagues. GenPlay also pays the city 25% of concession revenue.
In the first calendar year of its agreement, GenPlay paid the city $94,689 against a $98,000 initial projection, Long said. In the second year, GenPlay paid $111,000, Long said.
“They do everything they say they’re going to do and more,” Long said.
In another case at the Jan. 13 meeting, Bedford will get a new driving school, after council members approved a special use permit allowing one at 3516 Harwood Road.
The council unanimously approved a rezoning Jan. 13 that allows the school. The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval at an earlier meeting.
The school’s owner told council members he lived nearby and has taught driving in Texas for 10 years.
Tekisha Hobbs is a member of the Fort Worth Report’s Documenters crew. Scott Nishimura is senior editor for local government accountability at the Fort Worth Report.
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