The planned three-story, 280,000-square-foot field house addition to Liberty Launch Academy, a nonprofit private school serving preschool to 12th-grade students in Liberty Lake, is awaiting final building permit approval from the city of Liberty Lake before crews can break ground.

Liberty Launch Academy, established in 2022, is located at MODE Campus, at 2110 N. Molter Road in Liberty Lake. CEO Luke Kjar founded MODE, a coworking, fitness, wellness, and creative business hub, and Liberty Launch Academy, where he serves as the school’s executive director. 

The building is meant to support the school’s athletics program and provide a public resource for the community.

Scott Reid, chief operating officer at MODE and an advisory board member at Liberty Launch Academy, says following permit approval, crews are expected to break ground by April. Reid declines to disclose the estimated cost of the project. 

Cleveland-based OSPORTS, a sports and entertainment architecture company, is providing design services. Kirkland, Washington-based Apex Steel Inc. will build the main structure of the field house with pre-engineered building materials provided by Grand Island, Nebraska-based Chief Buildings Inc.

The field house is planned to replace an existing parking lot north of the existing campus building. It will include a full-size indoor turf field striped for football, lacrosse, soccer and rugby; 14 pickleball courts; a 60-foot climbing wall with hundreds of feet of bouldering; six basketball courts that also will serve as 12 volleyball courts; wrestling mats; classrooms, and a courtyard that joins the MODE Campus with the field house, says Reid.

Other interior details include seating, a viewing deck, locker rooms, and training areas. Interior work is expected to be completed by this fall and the field house is expected to open by the first quarter of 2027.

Liberty Launch Academy students will have access to the facility during the school's operating hours and the space will be available for community activities and events after hours, Reid adds.

—Ethan Pack