This logo was approved by the partners of the Lewis county Events center and Sports Complex this week.
The Lewis County Event Center and Sports Complex being built in Centralia just west of the woods in Fort Borst Park will now be known as the Northwest Sports Hub.
The four partners involved with bringing the sports hub to Centralia — Lewis County Public Facilities District, city of Centralia, Centralia School District and the Lewis County Event Center LLC — agreed on the name and logo this week.
Dale Pullin, Thorbeckes FitLife Center managing owner and member of the LLC, said Northwest Sports Hub is named as a way to tie into Centralia being known as the Hub City.
“We are tying it into the Hub City, but everybody has a different perspective and there are all kinds of ways of looking at it,” Pullin said. “We want people to identify this place as a place where sports happens.”
PFD Chair Todd Chaput said he supports the name because it is short and marketable.
“I was looking at an overview map of the area and I started seeing the building as the hub of the area,” Chaput said.
The logo plays off of the pinwheel idea where the building is hub of the wheel representing it as the sports hub of the region.
A banner with the logo and title, “NW Sports Hub, Sports Capital Northwest,” will be placed on the event center construction site this weekend during the USSSA softball and baseball tournament at Fort Borst Park, which will bring 90 teams to the community.
The 70-foot high, 75,600-square-foot event center will cost about $5 million to complete and be built to accommodate a variety of indoor sports, including basketball, volleyball, baseball, soccer and wrestling, among other events.
The first phase of construction, which includes the metal structure and concrete floors, is expected to be complete in August, when the final interior phase will begin.
