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While sports spaces have physical qualities, we often know they can serve as much more to communities through an emotional connection and relationship. Meaningful memories and experiences will lead to a strong sense of attachment, association, achievement, and ownership, and can make an important impact directly on its use and sustainability potential.

Community engagement and sustainability is a primary, integral, and inter-dependent part to our entire project process, not a consequence. From community identification, assessment, and collaborative project design, through construction, inauguration, and the post-project phase, diverse local groups and resources are identified, engaged, and connected to co-create a long-term vision and plan for sustainability. As the base of any type of community development program, we see great benefit in ensuring that the engagement process includes diverse and true local representation, with meaningful contribution from the community—not only as beneficiaries or consultants, but as key leaders of the process.

More than a place to play, we seek to develop sports spaces that go beyond their physical structure. They symbolize a community’s capacity to collaborate, achieve collective goals, and gain ownership over their wellbeing, with increased social relevance, reach, impact, and sustainability.