Premier Sports Dome
The community case · one-page summary
For municipal council, school districts and community associations
The ask
Build one year-round, multi-sport dome for a community of 100,000 — and protect prime-time hours inside it for recreational play, so no child is cut from the roster to make room.
100,000
residents in the community this case is sized to
16,000
kids aged 5–19 — Statistics Canada, 16.2%
70%
quit organized sport by age 13 — Sport for Life
1 in 3
children shut out by the cost of sport — CanPlay
01 The crisis
We are losing them at thirteen.
- Organized sport is built around winning: tryouts, tiers, rankings and rosters that split friend groups. The kids who need sport most leave first.
- Nine in ten kids say fun — not winning — is why they play. The system is organized around the other one.
- The ones who stay are the ones who can pay. Travel teams, private skills sessions and multi-season fees turned a neighbourhood game into a household budget line.
- 88% of parents worry about injury and safety. A supervised, year-round indoor setting answers that directly.
02 Why the hours never reach them
Prime-time gym and field hours are allocated to competitive and institutional programs first — rep teams, academies, the loudest schedule requests. What remains for recreational, multi-sport play is late nights and leftovers.
A single dome adds twelve months of prime-time capacity without displacing a single existing permit.
03 The model
- No tiering, no cuts — kids register with their friends and play with their friends; there is no tryout to be allowed to play.
- Multi-sport, one membership — sampling several sports before specializing at six builds durable athletes.
- Development before results — curriculum aligned to Long-Term Athlete Development; coaches measured on skill growth and enjoyment.
- Fun is the KPI — sessions, groupings and feedback designed around why kids actually play.
- Affordable by design — low seasonal fees, equipment provided, no mandatory travel.
- Culture that is coached — screened, trained coaches and an enforced code of conduct.
04 What one dome delivers
- Healthier kids. 1 in 10 as likely to be obese when active, with lower depression, better sleep and higher self-esteem.
- Better futures. 40% higher test scores and 15% more likely to attend post-secondary.
- A healthier community. 10% lower obesity, 18% lower high blood pressure, 3% lower heart disease.
- Local work. 50+ year-round roles in a single-dome operating model, plus hundreds of seasonal opportunities.
- Hours that do not exist today. After school, evenings and weekends, twelve months a year.
The closing case
01 · The model keeps kids in
No tryouts, no cuts, no tiers. Kids play with their friends, and coaches are measured on skill growth and enjoyment rather than standings.
02 · The roof makes it year-round
Twelve months of play and protected prime-time hours, without displacing a single existing permit.
03 · One asset serves everyone
Schools, associations, clubs and families on one schedule, instead of five groups competing for the same eight weekly hours.
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