At Highlands Ranch, a family-oriented community south of Denver, a motivated group of homeowners pursued the challenge of creating a new recreational center. The Sports Management Group, serving as Programming and Design Consultants to the project, guided the volunteer Future Facilities Committee through a series of hands-on activities. These fun activities included "spending sprees" in which homeowners chose how to spend play dollars to buy programming and activity spaces for the new Center. They played with the site plans, manipulating scaled building sections to more clearly visualize the possibilities for construction.

The challenge included siting the building on a difficult L-shaped 10-acre site and developing a facility that would complement the existing recreation center at Northridge while serving the needs of the entire community. The Sports Management Group developed cost estimates and operating cost projections, prepared information to support a public vote regarding funding, and served as Sports Facility Design Consultant to the Architect of Record, Sink Combs Dethlefs. The design features a skylit central rotunda/lobby that provides access and views to all activity areas. The completed Eastridge facility is an inviting recreational, educational, and social gathering place for all residents.