Plans were announced, Thursday, for a new 1,500-seat Brookland High School basketball arena at 613 Knox-Abbott Drive, Cayce.

The Lexington Two School Board has purchased 3.10 acres currently occupied by the Motel 6.

Plans are to demolish the motel and build the new $10.5 million Brookland-Cayce High School arena on the site.

The site for the new arena will have five (or possibly six) new tennis courts more parking, a weight room, locker rooms, space for trophy cases and concessions, according to Todd Sease, of Jumper, Carter Sease, the architect firm designing the facility. Thompson Turner Construction would be the contractors building it.

Construction on  the arena could begin in the spring of 2017, with a opening date set for the Fall of 2018.

Plans for the building is for it to be built 25-feet off of Knox-Abbott Drive. The facade of the arena would be similar to the Brookland-Cayce High School Football Stadium that is east of the site where the arena is planned.

The construction is being funded by the $225 million bond referendum that Lexington 2 voters passed in 2014.