Marietta has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the U.S. Soccer Foundation for lighting at the new Franklin Gateway Sports Complex.
The city was one of nine organizations nationwide to receive a foundation grant.
The sports complex will be comprised of three full-size regulation soccer fields that will be owned, operated, managed and maintained by the city and affiliated with Major League Soccer’s newest franchise, Atlanta United.
Marietta is developing a joint-use community park, bringing multi-use soccer fields to youths in the community within walking distance of Atlanta United’s training complex.
This grant was awarded as a part of the foundation’s Safe Places to Play program for underserved communities, an area where the city bought and demolished run-down apartment complexes to make way for Atlanta United’s headquarters and adjacent soccer fields.
Since its inception in 1994, the foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
Information: USSoccerFoundation.org.
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