Capital Sports Complex plans back on after federal funds secured

Key piece of Sports Center funding comes through; officials wait on mall outcome

Almost two years after a demolition crew tore down the former Macy’s department store at the Charleston Town Center Mall to make room for the Capital Sports Center Complex, the project has received a key portion of the funding plan: $7 million of Congressionally Directed Spending funds. Officials say they are waiting to see what happens to the Charleston Town Center Mall to move forward.

Capital Sports Complex plans back on after federal funds secured

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) - Federal funding is set to get a project back in motion in West Virginia's Capitol City. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) sat down with Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin and the Kanawha County Commission to discuss $7 million in federal funding to get the Capital Sports Center project off the [...]

Capital Sports Center plans back on track with Capito’s federal funding

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Capital Sports Center is back on track thanks to $7 million in congressionally-directed spending secured by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito after federal funds were held up last year. Capito said it makes her proud to use taxpayer dollars to help the project move forward. “I know as a citizen, a resident,…