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But are these efforts enough to meaningfully boost access to youth sports? Dev Pathik, founder of Sports Facility Advisory, a planning and management firm, is skeptical.

If your town — no matter how small and remote it is — hasn’t developed a plan for a mega-youth sports complex, it’ll do so, probably very soon.

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Society has changed and kids can’t just go play in the street anymore. Parents have chosen organized sporting events and training, [hoping for] a college scholarship.

Dev Pathik, CEO Sports Facilities Advisory in Clearwater Fla., told The City Wire that spending on sports travel has steadily risen during the past few years and is largely fueled by youth sports.

The Sports Facilities Advisory partners with Bo Jackson in expanding his indoor training facilities. ​

The Sports Facilities Advisory partners with Bo Jackson in expanding his indoor training facilities.

The Sports Facilities Advisory announces several new professional hires and long-term veterans of the Disney family entertainment industry which the company notes are an effort to enhance the thriving industry of sports travel and tourism—an industry that is predicted to eventually rival that of Disney.

One of the reasons for the increase in travel for children still competing is the specialization in one sport at an earlier age, Lisa Delpy Neirotti, an associate professor of sport management at George Washington University, told CNBC. Neirotti also estimated upwards of $10 billion is spent annually on youth sports travel.

​SFA and SFM addressed Davidson County Commissioners about potential sports complex.

On Monday and Tuesday, officials with Sports Facilities Advisory held meetings with stakeholders, such as groups involved in baseball, softball, swimming and tennis. Meetings have also been planned with activities’ administrators of area schools, parks and recreation officials from area communities. Sports Facilities Advisory officials have also toured facilities in Gering and Scottsbluff.

“There’s a privatization of sport that has occurred over the last 20 years, where athletes are now able to access the sport of their choice through private enterprise and programming outside of school,” founder and CEO of Sports Facilities Advisory Dev Pathik said. “That’s what we’ve really responded to, was this shift.”

Pasco County residents waiting for that chance to have a voice in tourism can do it now through a new survey offered by The Sports Facilities Advisory.

Marion, Illinois’, sports center, the Hub, is scheduled to open in January and will offer local residents, as well as traveling athletes and families, a quality recreation opportunity, while also bolstering the local economy.

After the recession imposed seven years of dwindling construction job opportunities, things are brightening on the construction front, including in the sports and recreation sector, according to Sports Facilities Advisory (SFA), a consulting group that helps finance multimillion-dollar public and private sports complexes throughout the United States and internationally.