CROWN POINT | It'll take $12.7 million to make youth sports groups' dreams a reality on the city's sportsplex properties.

Indianapolis-based engineering firm Schneider Corp. presented conceptual drawings for the current North Street sportsplex and Breyfogle Farm land Tuesday night.

Crown Point's recreational powerhouses would be developed in two phases.

The first phase demolishes the Parks Department building on North Street and replaces it with three practice fields. It also calls for construction of a recreation center building with at least three basketball courts and the parks offices. The North Street property would add five soccer fields to the west and parking in the first phase.

In the second phase, the North Street soccer fields would be shifted to football fields for the Crown Point Junior Bulldogs.

Youth soccer would land at its permanent home on Breyfogle Farm off Old Merrillville Road.

Phase two of the sportsplex design calls for 11 1/2 soccer fields and 750 parking spots to be built at the 57.8-acre site. About 16 acres of the Breyfogle Farm parcel at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Summit Street was set aside to be resold as commercial land to help pay for some of the proposed improvements.

"It will be a cascading effect," said Michael Krosschell, Schneider Corp. project manager, of the sportsplex improvements. "One thing can't happen until another one does."

Babe Ruth, Little League and the Crown Point Swim Club would be the losers under the proposed sportsplex designs. None were designated land at either site.

Krosschell said he shied away from adding the pool because of the project's already hefty price tag.

"I'm not looking for assistance in funding," said John Krick, of the Swim Club. "Just finding the property is the most difficult thing."

Mayor Dan Klein asked Schneider Corp. to set aside property for the Swim Club to build its pool, whether it was on either of the sportsplex sites or by the Hub Pool off South Street. He suggested fitting in some space for the baseball groups as well.

It will cost Crown Point about $10.6 million to make all of the proposed changes to the North Street sportsplex. It will take another $2.15 million to transform Breyfogle Farm.

Krosschell said the city could get Breyfogle Farm started with a couple of soccer fields and parking for about $500,000.

Klein said the sale of a chunk of Breyfogle Farm will help pay for some of the improvements, as will revenues from the recreation center. No other funding sources were discussed Tuesday night.