Please the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the Department of General Services (DGS) for a community meeting about the renovations planned for the Randall Recreation Center and Pool. The project team will present initial concept designs for the renovation and gather .
You can provide your input on the project on Tuesday, Oct. 8 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Randall Recreation Center (920 South Capitol St. SW)
An update on the Randall Recreation Center (South Capitol at I Street SW) project was last provided at the DC DPR Project Update meeting in July.
“This has been a long time coming,” Design Manager Brent Sisco said of the work to renovate Randall Recreation Center, noting he worked on the playground renovation at the same site almost ten years ago when he started with DPR.
A feasibility study was then underway to determine the best use of the campus, Sisco said, centered on pool and recreation center expansion and the addition of other amentities.
“[That’s] “essentially you know does it make sense to have a 50-meter pool here?” Sisco asked rhetorically. “Does it make sense to tear down the pool house? What can we do with existing Fieldhouse” that’s historic and that used to be I think a dog pound at one time.” Sisco said that DPR is gathering information to present to the community so that they could dictate what it will become.
However, he said that the decision had all but been made that there would not be a 50-meter pool at Randall. The feasibility study, Siscos said, “came back that it would really blow our budget out of the water,”requiring a much larger mechanical and engineering room, limiting finances and space for the recreation center and pool house. The starting point for the concept is therefore a renovation of the existing 25 meter pool.
Sisco said that thus far indicates that a 50-meter pool does not work at Randall, largely because it draws so many s to a site that cannot facilitate parking. DPR would like to replace the pool house, renovate the historic building and make upgrades to both the courts and field. The project is still in the design phase; next, DPR will select a construction manager, at which point additional timelines will crystalize together with other decisions.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit:
https://randalldc.splashthat.com/
For additional information about the project, please visit https://dgs.dc.gov/page/randall-recreation-center-and-pool
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