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Updated: April 22, 2024 @ 8:23 am
The new indoor soccer field house will be built at George Hellwig Memorial Park at Independent Hill, which is located in the Manassas area of Prince William County.
The new indoor soccer field house will be built at George Hellwig Memorial Park at Independent Hill, which is located in the Manassas area of Prince William County.
If all goes according to plan, the Northern Virginia Soccer Club will open Prince William County’s first indoor soccer field house next year at Independent Hill.
The nonprofit recreational soccer club plans to build a $1.5 million soccer field house at George Hellwig Memorial Park in partnership with the Prince William County Department of Parks and Recreation. As part of a plan the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved last year, the club will pay for the facility’s construction, while the county will allow it to be built on public parkland and will be responsible for most of its maintenance.
Once the facility is built, the Northern Virginia Soccer Club will have priority access, meaning it will use about 80% of the facility’s time with the remaining 20% open to other community organizations. The soccer club has more than 500 teams and about 5,000 players, according to its website.
“It will serve the community at large,” said Seth Hendler-Voss, director of Prince William County Parks and Recreation.
It will also benefit local soccer teams by allowing them to train indoors, especially in cold or inclement weather, said Bill Gregory, Northern Virginia Soccer Club’s executive director.
“You can have artificial turf, but asking your kids to play in 35–degree weather isn’t exactly the best training facility to have,” he said. “I think it’s a very valuable commodity that would help all the players that are within our club and within Prince William County to continue to develop their skills.”
The one-story, metal field house is planned to be about 35,000 square feet and will include an indoor soccer field as well as office space, meeting rooms, bathrooms and storage, according to a county staff report.
The soccer club and the county parks department have worked together in the past and are currently working to convert two fields at the park from grass to turf. The field house will be an extension of that partnership.
“The department is managing the field conversion and NVSC, through a memorandum of understanding, will be managing the construction of the field house,” Hendler-Voss said.
Gregory said he expects the project is about a year to a year and a half away from completion. The fields at Hellwig Park will most likely be converted next winter.
“Ultimately, the whole front of Hellwig Park will be transformed between the field conversions and the field house over the next few years,” he said. “It’ll be a completely different experience for visitors and competitors.”
In the future, both the soccer club and the parks department could see the potential for more indoor field houses in the county.
“I think it’ll be a very popular facility, and we’ll see around the clock use without a doubt,” Hendler-Voss said. “Hopefully, it’s the first of other projects that we’ll be able to develop over time. Our master plan calls for indoor facilities like this, and we’d like to be able to meet the needs of our community.”
Reach Isabella Sherk at news@fauquier.com
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