The owner of Vale Sports Club has purchased a Middletown property that will serve as his company’s new headquarters, in addition to offering recreational areas and commercial outlets in a multiphase expansion.
Zach Eddinger in June bought the 17-acre property at 49 Randolph Road for $1.9 million.
Eddinger in 2018 established Vale Sports, which specializes in running soccer leagues, clinics, camps and tournaments. The company currently leases sports facility space in Middletown and other parts of Connecticut, but aims to consolidate its operations to the newly purchased Randolph Road property.
The property contains vacant land and a 28,300-square-foot commercial building that will serve as Vale Sports Club’s new headquarters and indoor and outdoor recreation center.
Eddinger said his long-term vision is to run the organization out of one location, and create a larger “stay-and-play” destination facility in Middletown.
The multiphase master plan includes redeveloping the industrial warehouse formerly owned by Connecticut Light and Power into a mixed-use entertainment/commercial venue, with residential units above, he said.
The new facility will also have two outdoor synthetic turf soccer fields with lights, and a new 28,000-square-foot field house for an indoor soccer field.
Phase one includes build out for the commercial tenants. Phases two and three cover the new outdoor fields, and phase four is the new field house.
Vale and a property manager are already operating out the existing building, Eddinger said, and he has letters of intent for leases from a brewery, gym and a real estate broker and mortgage company, he said.
He estimates an investment ranging from $7 million to $11 million for the sports and commercial components of the plan. He has not yet determined a scope or cost for the residential project, he said.
The property was last sold in December 2021 for $2.1 million to 49 Randolph Road Middletown LLC.
