Irondequoit Supervisor Dave Seeley says the town is building four new athletic fields and a 110-car parking lot at Camp Eastman.
Seeley says it will transform one field that can no longer handle the needs of Irondequoit Youth Soccer and Youth Lacrosse into a field complex that can.
Seeley was joined at Camp Eastman by Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle and State Senator Rich Funke, who together came up with $500,000 in state funding for the project.
Construction starts next year and will level a hill at the rear of the property to make room for the fields. It should be finished by 2018.