Shoreview Community Center to renovate water park, indoor playground
The long-planned expansion to the Shoreview Community Center will become a reality starting this fall.
Costing $13 million, the project will include additions to the center’s gymnasium and its Tropic Indoor Water Park. It will also include renovations to the indoor playground, the water park and the family locker rooms and is expected to be finished by early fall of 2018.
It has been nearly 15 years since the last renovation project on the 27-year-old community center. The current project comes after three to four years of planning. Shoreview will pay for the expansion with a $12 million bond issue and $1 million from a Community Investment Fund.
The Community Center has about 2,000 members, General Manager Michelle Majkozak said. The expansion is expected to boost sales, of which about 30 percent are now family memberships. The water park and playground are its biggest draws.
“We’re really trying to make sure the whole community remains a really desirable place for young families,” City Manager Terry Schwerm said.
Expansion of the water park is the defining feature of the project with the planned installation of an outdoor plaza adjacent to a new pool area surrounded by large windows, according to Schwerm.
The pool area expansion will include a zero-depth splash pool with a themed play structure. While details about the structure are still being finalized, it is estimated about 100 to 150 more people will be able to fit in the general pool area after the expansion.
Other plan highlights include:
Costing $13 million, the project will include additions to the center’s gymnasium and its Tropic Indoor Water Park. It will also include renovations to the indoor playground, the water park and the family locker rooms and is expected to be finished by early fall of 2018.
It has been nearly 15 years since the last renovation project on the 27-year-old community center. The current project comes after three to four years of planning. Shoreview will pay for the expansion with a $12 million bond issue and $1 million from a Community Investment Fund.
The Community Center has about 2,000 members, General Manager Michelle Majkozak said. The expansion is expected to boost sales, of which about 30 percent are now family memberships. The water park and playground are its biggest draws.
“We’re really trying to make sure the whole community remains a really desirable place for young families,” City Manager Terry Schwerm said.
Expansion of the water park is the defining feature of the project with the planned installation of an outdoor plaza adjacent to a new pool area surrounded by large windows, according to Schwerm.
The pool area expansion will include a zero-depth splash pool with a themed play structure. While details about the structure are still being finalized, it is estimated about 100 to 150 more people will be able to fit in the general pool area after the expansion.
Other plan highlights include:
- Four new fitness studios on the lower level.
- A larger Wave Cafe seating area near the swimming pool entrance.
- A bigger play structure and more seating for adults at the indoor playground.
- Four new multi-purpose meeting and activity rooms to be used for senior programs and activities, expanded art and cultural programming for youths and adults, and the city’s full-day summer child-care programs.
