Waukesha area youth baseball complex approved

April 15, 2011
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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

April 15, 2011 0

Town of Waukesha - The Waukesha Plan Commission and Town Board have given final approval to the Five Diamonds youth baseball complex south of Les Paul Parkway (Highway 59/164) west of Milky Way Road.

The project will include six lighted baseball game fields, four practice and "rookie fields for starter players, an indoor practice facility for winter and a concession stand. Alcohol will not be sold and a loudspeaker system will not be permitted.

It will serve kids 4 to 18, including the Waukesha Blazers boys baseball and girls softball programs and possibly area middle and high school teams.

Tom Kelenic, who is developing the property with Greg Beatty, said construction should start soon and take about four months with grass seeding in the fall. Kelenic said they plan to have the operation in full swing by next April.

The project, approved Thursday, has been under discussion and town scrutiny since last May but has overcome concerns about lighting, noise and traffic. Dozens of conditions have been imposed on the operating plan to address those and others.

About Laurel Walker
Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus. She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon. She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.
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