BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The Bellevue City Council has approved a renegotiated contract with financially troubled World Baseball Village that lets the complex operate until Nov. 30, with an option for a one-year extension if the complex makes its bond payments.
The Omaha World-Herald reports that the agreement approved Monday includes a requirement that World Baseball Village management must pay back the city, which covered the December 2014 bond payment of $287,000.
The $6.5 million complex, built through a public-private partnership, opened in 2010. The city owns the complex, and a group called World Baseball Village manages the facility.
The facility has struggled. It was downsized from the start, has rarely filled tournament expectations and paid the city late at least once and sometimes didn't pay the city its $100-per-team fee at all.
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