With “substantial completion” achieved on the four-field Pattee Park soccer complex on W. Fifth Street in Pattee Park, the Perry City Council last week approved a payment of $163,000 to Springlake Construction for work completed through Oct. 31.
“They’re working on the final punch-list items now,” Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson told the council, “so we’re on track to be kicking some soccer balls around next year.”
The $680,000 complex is located west of the Pattee Park baseball and softball diamonds between W. Fifth Street and Diagonal Road and features four soccer pitches plus a wetland buffer trail and retention pond.
Plans for the soccer complex were first unveiled in August 2014. The Perry Soccer Club immediately donated $10,000 toward the soccer field portion of the Pattee Park complex, with the Hotel Pattee adding another $5,000 to the fund.
The city of Perry landed $100,000 in matching funds in October 2014 from the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) program to pay for the phase I pond and buffer, and Tyson Fresh Meats donated $100,000 toward the buffer trail and retention pond in the summer 2015.
Along with the Tyson pledge, other local business, industry and civic groups contributing to the athletic fields were ITC, the Hotel Pattee and the Bock Family Foundation.
The Perry City Council in February accepted a $450,000 bid for the job from Polk City-based Spring Lake Construction, which met its target finish date of Oct. 31.
