As a kid, Tadd Gibson must have been really good at the game of Monopoly.

The Oswego resident and co-founder of Elite Sports Performance unveiled the expanded ESP Complex last week, adding another piece to the ESP Complex. The new units now exclusively house the baseball and softball training facility – complete with new batting cages, higher net frames and FieldTurf throughout the combined 25,000 square foot facility.

The Baseball/Softball Training Center is located at 1513 and 1517 Mitchell Drive in Oswego. The original ESP building at 2050 Mitchell Drive will now primarily house the ESP Football Academy, fitness training and speed and agility training as well as field rentals in a continued partnership with ESP co-founder Macey Brooks.

"In the long term, I'd love to have fields," Gibson said. "The community has been so awesome supporting us that I'd love to give back with some turf fields. There are a lot of good people in this community. We get a lot of business just from word of mouth. It's been really good."

The training center schedule is booked from December through March with area youth teams practicing as late as 10 p.m., but the building doesn't close then; college teams from Benedictine and Aurora University arrive after dark to get their time in as well. The ESP staff includes 13 trainers with four working full time at the location. ESP also houses 25 competitive travel baseball and softball teams.

"On the weekends, from 7 in the morning until 10 at night, every hour is booked," Gibson said. "August is a slow time here because everyone is on vacation or they've transitioned to football, and we still have four guys here full time. The training business is year-round."

The evolution began from its creation in January 2009, with Gibson teaming up with co-founder Mark Dalesandro and Brooks. The site underwent some remodeling in 2011. When the building down the street went into foreclosure in late 2009, ESP began leasing space for its growing facility until the building was purchased a few years later. The adjacent building was purchased in March 2015, and renovations began to convert the area into an additional training space.

Over 550 athletes recently attended tryouts for the ESP Select baseball and ESP Elite softball teams, and after a quiet August in the fieldhouse, Gibson and his staff will be gearing up for what will certainly be a busy winter offseason.