![]() Computers and event software for Swimming, Diving, Water Polo and Syncro.Poolside classroom/Event Operations Room.1,100 Armchair Stadium seats + 700 bleacher seats + 24 handicap spaces + 700 spaces for folding chairs for a total of 2,524 total seats.75 feet long in lap area 50 feet wide in lap area (six lanes).One inch ceramic tile throughout 4-4.5 feet deep.16-17 feet deep 24 x 80 tri-color full matrix scoreboard/message center. ![]() Adjacent eight person in-ground hot tub.Trampoline room and separate Port-A-Pit area.Bubble and spray surface agitation systems.Sparger bubbler system under all platforms and three meter springboards.One inch ceramic tile throughout (blue field with white markers).Two 1-meter and two 3-meter springboards and 1, 3, 5, 7.5 and 10 meter platforms with rough-tex surfaces.25 meters long 58 feet wide (eight 7-foot wide lanes).80 x 160 tri-color full matrix scoreboard/message center.Seven feet deep at ends and nine feet deep in middle.One inch ceramic tile throughout (white field with black markers).Two moveable bulkheads each 4 feet wide.50 meters + eight feet long, 75 feet wide.These rooms are primarily used for large banquets, gatherings, workshops, and presentations and include upscale amenities such as a clouded ceiling, specialized lighting, and a large outdoor patio space overlooking Blue Bell Park. Rooms 2229A & 2229B – This large banquet room, when joined, is approximately 6,000 square feet, and when divided, is two separate 3,000 square foot rooms. These rooms share a small, adjoining outdoor patio space overlooking Blue Bell Park. Rooms 2221 & 2225 – These activity/fitness rooms are approximately 2,000 square feet each and are primarily used for group fitness classes, specialty classes, and Wellness Works classes, but are also periodically utilized for a variety of other activities. It is primarily used for departmental and student meetings and presentations. Room 1132 – This room is set up in a fixed auditorium style seating fashion an can seat up to 80 people. This room has a nice outdoor patio space with views into Blue Bell Park. Room 1130 – This 3,500 square foot multi-purpose room is utilized for events, small to moderate sized banquets and gatherings, group fitness and specialty classes, departmental events, programs and presentations. The new Bow Creek is expected to open to the public in December 2014.Ĭlick here to see renderings of the new Bow Creek Recreation Center.Ĭlick here to learn more about the new Bow Creek Recreation Center.Each of the multi-purpose/activity rooms are outfitted with high-end audio video systems and wi-fi and can be set up in a multitude of ways for a wide variety of uses. "We’ll take advantage of that with overlook decks and some pedestrian paths through the wetlands." ![]() "We are doing a constructed wet land around the recreation center that will accept drainage from the Bow Creek neighborhoods," Maholchic explained. In addition to a new playground, stormwater management systems on the property will see improvements to control flooding and improve water quality. The new Bow Creek Recreation Center will be twice the size of the old one, with an indoor swimming pool and expanded fitness areas. It didn’t provide the quality recreation experience that we come to expect." "The building systems were deteriorated and tough to maintain and very expensive for the city to keep it going. "It was a building that was built in 1961 as a country club for the Bow Creek Golf Course, so it was really not constructed as a recreation center," explained Bob Maholchic, a project manager with the City of Virginia Beach. ![]() The old recreation center was demolished over the spring, after it closed to the public in August 2012. The City gave McKenzie Construction the notice to proceed with building the new rec center on July 8. (WTKR) - Construction has started on the new Bow Creek Recreation Center in Virginia Beach.
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