LAWTON – The Lawton Youth Sports Authority has extended the deadline for closing on the sale of property for the city ’s proposed indoor youth sports complex.
In a special meeting, the a uthority voted July 8 to mov e the deadline from July 12 to the end of the month.
The new deadline will give the authority more time to c lean up the title work for the property, Chairman Brian Henry said after the meeting.
In March, the authority voted to purchase nearly 85 acres of land on the southwest corner of East Gore Boulevard and Southeast 45th Street for the sports complex. The Frank L. Richards 1992 Revocable Living Trust currently owns 47.4 acres of the pr operty. Richards’ widow, Donna Richards Cooper, and her husband, Dr. Mickey Cooper, own the remaining 37.59 acres.
The authority agreed to pay $1 million for the site altog ether – $495,000 f or the Richards property and $505,000 for the Cooper property. The authority’s budget will supply about $700,000 for buying the property, and the rest will come o ut of a $3 million grant from the McMahon Foundation.