{"id":1199,"date":"2018-06-13T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/?page_id=1199"},"modified":"2019-01-25T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:52:50","slug":"parks-recreation-multipurpose-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/departments\/parks-recreation-multipurpose-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks &#038; Recreation \/ Multipurpose Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Lamar County Fairgrounds and Community Complex<\/strong>\u00a0was built in 1999 to provide an affordable multi-use complex for the citizens of Lamar County. The\u00a0<strong>Entrance Building<\/strong>\u00a0has a large porch that surrounds a Meeting Room, Concession Stand, Restrooms and has a covered walk-way to the Main Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Meeting Room\u00a0<\/strong>which measures 24&#215;35 seat 65 people comfortably and is equipped with Men and Women Restroom\/Dressing Rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Concession Stand<\/strong>\u00a0is equipped to handle large crowds with fountain drinks, hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, chips and candy.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Main Arena\u00a0<\/strong>measures 200&#215;300 feet and is covered. There are two sets of spacious wooden bleachers that comfortably sear over 2,300 people. The performance area can be opened on two ends allowing for an additional 2,500 folding chairs for stage presentations.<\/p>\n<p>The livestock and horse configuration allows for a 135 x 200 foot performance area with pens on each end that includes holding areas, bucking chutes, team roping, etcetera. A chute is conveniently concealed under one side of the bleachers. The\u00a0<strong>Arena floor<\/strong>\u00a0is composed of sand clay soil that can be tightly packed to accommodate walking.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0Main Area<\/strong>\u00a0is connected to a\u00a0<strong>Horse Barn<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Exhibit Barn<\/strong>\u00a0by covered walk-way.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Horse Barn<\/strong>\u00a0is well ventilated and has 119 wooden stalls that are 10 x 12 feet each with several water faucets located at the end of each alley. An animal wash area located at the rear of the\u00a0<strong>Horse Barn<\/strong>\u00a0can accommodate six animals at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Exhibit Barn\u00a0<\/strong>can tie 180 cattle and allows for a 12 foot walk-way between the rows. The\u00a0<strong>Exhibit Barn<\/strong>\u00a0also is designed to comfortably accommodate 120 10 x 12 foot spaces for vendors or exhibitors while maintaining a 12 foot walk-way for spectators or shoppers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Future Sports Facilities in Lamar County<\/h3>\n<p>The Lamar County Sports Complex Visionary Board is an advisory board to the Lamar County Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>To understand the workings of the visionary board please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/index.php\/lamar-county-sports-complex-lcsc-visionary-board-draft\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Lamar County Fairgrounds and Community Complex\u00a0was built in 1999 to provide an affordable multi-use complex for the citizens of Lamar County. The\u00a0Entrance Building\u00a0has a large porch that surrounds a Meeting Room, Concession Stand, Restrooms and has a covered walk-way to the Main Arena. The\u00a0Meeting Room\u00a0which measures 24&#215;35 seat 65 people comfortably and is equipped with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1199\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}