Mooresville Gets 'Disney World of Baseball'

It was announced earlier this month that a corporation affiliated with Coopertown Dreams Park in New York has chosen Mooresville to be the site of an $18 million-$21 million, 25-field youth baseball tournament complex. This complex, on 111 acres off Ranklin Hill Road on Mooresville's north side, will be the largest of its kind. The complex, to be called America's Park Mooresville, is expected to bring in an estimated $35 million annually in tourism revenue durning the 13-week height of its season.

This type of facility can be a major blessing to the youth in and around the Mooresville area. Stepping up the competition level of local youth baseball, as-well-as attracting the best of the best in coaching talent will give a crop of youth an opportunity that has not existing in the area before.

Let us hope that the rumors of "sketchy" business practices by some of those involved, as-well-as Coopertown Dream Park's awful website are no reflection on what is to come over the next couple of years with this facility. Mooresville town officials need to hold all involved to their word and make sure this is not just another one of those "dream" projects that never comes into reality. Mooresville and the surrounding area have seen enough of those in the last several years.