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The mission of Auburn聽Xtreme聽Softball has been to facilitate聽competitive softball at Herman Avenue on fields the group has worked to improve since its formation in 2010. And when a travel league competes, Stearns 鈥� an Auburn Xtreme Softball organizer 鈥� said arriving parents and players often search first for the bathrooms and concessions stand.

To date, organizers have employed portable restrooms聽while selling food wares from cookery beneath a nearby pavilion, Stearns said. He added that those restrooms, in particular, are not ideal 鈥� particularly for young women.

A working concept to build a brand-new facility is looking to change that.

Auburn Xtreme Softball has proposed to construct a聽1,792-square-foot concessions stand complete with restrooms, storage garage and a roofed waiting area for patrons.

"We really want to put something up there that is nice for the community and the softball community to enjoy and use," Stearns said.

Project site plans were presented Tuesday to members of the Auburn Planning Board for further review. Site drawings show the building would be located along Ross Street near the corner of North Herman Avenue.

Senior Planner Stephen Selvek, who advises the planning board, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Early estimates put the cost of the structure at around $50,000, with another $25,000 to $75,000 needed for the interior equipment, Stearns said.聽

As they have in the past with the fields, Stearns said organizers plan to get the facility constructed and further outfit聽the structure at their own pace.

"This is not something that's going up overnight all shiny and new," he said. "We want to do it one piece at a time, we want to do it right and we want it to hold up in the long run."

Stearn has been a member of Auburn Xtreme Softball's board of trustees, along with Tom Hansen and Mike Merkley, and has helped steer the group for the last three years, he said.

The Herman Avenue college-level diamonds聽are used by teams with Auburn Xtreme Softball's four age divisions as well as the city school district's varsity, junior varsity and modified squads. Stearns said trustees would like to extend that to Cayuga Community College squads, while the concession stand could be made open to partner programs once policies are in place.

With the project still in the early phases, details are still being hashed out. Stearns said he anticipates a volunteer effort used for concessions operations, while portions of any sales 鈥� Auburn Xtreme Softball Inc. is a nonprofit organization聽鈥� would continue to be used toward overall field improvements.聽

Stearns said he foresees the concessions stand as "a nice finishing touch" to the work already completed by those involved and partnered with Auburn Xtreme Softball.

For Stearns on a personal level, the importance of safe facilities for the players聽has been magnified after the death of 18-year-old聽Chloe Calhoun, who was for the Auburn High School softball team.

"If nothing else, it gives me more resolve to do these things," Stearns said.

Calhoun was killed last week in a two-vehicle crash near Tom Thumb Drive-In in Owasco.聽The driver,聽Dain Schneider, remains jailed on a felony drunk driving charge聽.

Stearns, who coached Calhoun and considered her an extended member of his family,聽said he would like to see her honored in some way in the future.