I’ll give a short update today on the status of the Community Center remodeling project. If you haven’t drive by the Community Center are lately, you’re missing a big construction project. The new baseball stadium is essentially completed and waiting patiently for the Boys of Spring to give it a go next year. There is what appears to be a nice carpet of green grass on the field right now, but it’s much too tender to play on. We’re hoping it will be sturdy enough to play on next year.
Next to baseball stadium, just to the west, is a new parking area. I took the photo on the left from the new second floor of the Community Center looking east toward the baseball stadium. You can see the lights of the stadium and the new parking area in the foreground. You can also see the new drop-off area for the Community Center.
In the photo in the center is a view of the second floor fitness area looking to the south, toward Round Lake. The new fitness area will be full of fitness machines and TV screens, but is designed to be very open. There will be several large south facing windows to bring natural light into the new space, which is at least five times larger than our current fitness area at the Community Center.
The photo on the right shows the area where we considered installing a “green roof” earlier this year. That big opening will be a large window when sometime very soon making this roof area very visible to people who use the second floor of the facility. This area, while it would have been a good place for a “green roof” is also where we can expand the building vertically someday, so if we would have installed the green roof here, we would have had to move it for any kind of vertical expansion project in the future.
The project is going well. The fitness area is still on schedule to be open by January 1, 2008. The full project is still slated to be completed by the end of March 2008.
