A-Game Sportsplex To Remain Sports Facility, But Without Ice

FRANKLIN, TN -- Franklin's A-Game Sportsplex sold this week for $12.2 million and the new owners plan to keep it a sports facility, but ice hockey will not return.

"A-Game has been a centerpiece for youth athletics in Middle Tennessee and the Southeast for many years," Roy Dano, a member of new ownership group Tennessee Youth Sports, said in a press release. "We look forward to once again making this a premier youth sports destination. It will be home to both recreational and world-class athletes from Williamson County and the greater Nashville area."

Dano said his group plans more than $1 million in improvements to begin in the next few months with a grand re-opening slated for the fall.

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There will also be 30,000 square-feet of retail and office space. Earlier deals for A-Game included redevelopment of the entire 174,000 square-foot facility as office space.

The two former ice rinks will be redeveloped for other sports, leaving Nashville with a dearth of sheets for an ever-larger hockey-playing population. There are currently four rinks - two at the Centennial SportsPlex and another pair at Ford Ice Center in Antioch - in Middle Tennessee.

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