Gateway Seeks RFPs for Sports Complex & Golf Courses
Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway) is seeking proposals to lease a sports and events center as well as golf facilities in two different locations, what is now the Aviator Sports Center, and the Riis Park and Flatbush Avenue golf courses.
The first Request for Proposal (RFP) is for one of the largest sports and event centers in NYC, with approximately 175,000 square feet of improved space, adjacent fields, and other facilities. This sports center is located in Hangars 5,6,7 and 8 in Floyd Bennett Field (Aviator). The two-floor facility contains offices, a pro shop, two regulation sized ice-hockey rinks, a snack bar, a lounge area, event space, gyms, locker rooms, patios, a climbing wall, and an outdoor swimming pool(s). Additional recreation fields and facilities included in the premises include the Chiller Building, South Football Field, North Football Field, South Bleachers, North Bleachers, Playing Field East Shed, and Playing Field West Shed. The sports and events center area also includes free parking for 2,000 cars, additional traffic circulation infrastructure, fencing, lights, and scoreboards. The facilities are underutilized. The NPS is seeking an operator who can improve the facility, the offerings available, and the opportunity as a whole.
The second RFP is a unique opportunity to lease Brooklyn’s only full-size driving range and an 18-hole Par 3 golf course on the doorstep of the Atlantic Ocean in Queens (Riis Park). The facilities at Jacob Riis Park are part of a Historic District and include a par 3 18-hole Pitch and Putt golf course, practice area, a service building, and a gazebo. The course area is approximately 21.6 acres and includes irrigation and electric infrastructure. Seasonal operations typically run from the end of March until mid-November. Offerors are not limited to seasonal operation. Offerors may propose additional activities which NPS may authorize so long as NPS determines per its sole discretion that such activities are consistent with the purposes established by law for the park area.
The Flatbush Avenue Driving Range is located at 3200 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, approximately one mile from Exit 11S on the Belt Parkway, and is Brooklyn’s only full-size driving range. The driving range is located on the southbound side of Flatbush Avenue, next to the Gateway Marina. The driving range facilities include 71 tees (20 covered and heated tees), pro shop facility, maintenance building, putting area, miniature golf course, and a few small buildings used for related services. Seasonal operations typically run from the end of March until mid-November. Offerors are not limited to seasonal operation.
Requests for site tours and questions about the RFP or the Lease Premises should be submitted via email to GATE_BMD@nps.gov. Questions must be submitted by Friday, February 28, 2025.
Proposals for both RFPs are due Monday, March 10, 2025, by 1 p.m.
