By Kui Mwai
(Source Blavitynews):
Dr. Kingsley Okonkwo, a Nigerian American business owner in Corpus Christi, Texas, spearheads a new sports complex in the area, which will be the first Black-owned one. Said to encourage almost 50,000 additional out-of-town visits to the coastal South Texas city a year and millions in tourist spending, Okonkwo’s complex will be home to the Corpus Christi Football Club, which the businessman and pediatrician started in 2016.
“I realized we didn’t have anything like that in Corpus Christi,” Okonkwo told KRIS 6 News of founding the Corpus Christi Football Club, the first of its kind in the area. “So the idea and the idea and the concept came, can we build something here?”
In 2017, Corpus Christi Football Club received the green light to bring a professional soccer franchise to the city that will play and practice at the new facility.
