Thanks to a business collaboration, Chatham-Kent soon will have another indoor athletic complex, this time at the former Navistar site.

CK Flex Plex held a special media event Wednesday to announce plans for the over 10,200 square metre (110,000-square-foot) facility, located at 450 Merritt Ave.

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These include indoor soccer fields, as well as half-court basketball, volleyball and badminton courts, and table tennis. Outside, there will be an artificial turf soccer field, with lights, and beach volleyball courts.

“For some reason, we just don’t have (an) indoor facility,” said business owner Philip Ong, a Chatham resident. “I figured there’s a need there.”

Currently in his second year of renting property from the school board, he’s hoping to open the new facility, owne

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