One Campus, Every Sport
The Sports Development Foundation envisions a national multi-sport complex in Portmore, St. Catherine โ a facility where athletes from every discipline can train, recover, and compete without leaving the island. Jamaica produces world-beating talent, but too many of our athletes must travel overseas for proper training facilities. That ends here.
The Complex
Phase 1, funded by this campaign, includes: an 8-lane Olympic-standard swimming pool, a 6-court indoor netball and basketball arena, a boxing gym with 4 rings, a strength and conditioning centre, sports medicine and physiotherapy suites, and athlete dormitories for 60 residents.
Future Phases
Phase 2 will add a 400m synthetic athletics track, tennis courts, and a cricket practice facility. Phase 3 will include a sports science laboratory and a regional sports museum. But Phase 1 is the foundation โ literally and figuratively.
Why Portmore?
Portmore is Jamaica's fastest-growing city, home to over 200,000 people and hundreds of active sporting clubs. It is 20 minutes from Kingston, close to the Norman Manley International Airport, and has available government land earmarked for sports development. The location makes the complex accessible to athletes island-wide.
<p>Large-scale construction projects carry inherent risks: material cost inflation, labour shortages, and weather delays. We have engaged a Jamaican construction firm with experience in sports facilities, locked in material prices through forward contracts, and built a 6-month weather buffer into the timeline. The SDF has secured matching funds from the Government of Jamaica contingent on this campaign reaching its goal.</p>
The government matching is huge! If every Jamaican at home and abroad gave even J$500, we would smash through the goal. Shared with my whole family in Florida and London.
Portmore is the perfect location. We have the athletes, we have the hunger. All we've been missing is the facility. J$50,000 donated โ let's get this done Jamaica!