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A Home For Health And Heritage
Frogtown Community Center in St. Paul, Minn., located on the site of the former Scheffer Recreation Center, is a vibrant hub of cultural inclusivity and wellness-driven activity. While the 1970s center may have brought community together in the past, in the present it needed a ground-up overhaul to connect with the diversity of the current community.
For The Record
The city of Grapevine Parks and Recreation Department in Texas maintains 23 trails throughout the park system, including hard and soft surfaces. This provides residents of all ages attractive, safe, accessible, and low- or no-cost places to cycle, walk, hike, jog, or skate.
Making Itself Known
However nostalgic, the grainy black and white photos of children frolicking in the spray of a fire hydrant on a sweltering summer day remind us that access to recreational water parks is not assured for many underprivileged and overlooked communities.
Biederman Redevelopment Ventures plan new park programming
The Park @ 320 will host events outside of 320 South Canal Street, home of the new BMO Tower
A Contribution To The Community
Colorado College has just unveiled its first on-campus hockey arena and sporting-event venue, Ed Robson Arena. The 135,000-square-foot project marks the first time the hockey team will be able to play games on campus since the program’s founding in 1938.
Creating Ownership
Before a community-center project begins, the most important foundational effort is to develop trust among residents. This can be very easy or more challenging depending on the nuances of the particular community and its history.
A Relaxed, Unpretentious Attitude
In an area of the city rich with history, Austin’s Montopolis neighborhood is taking a step into the future—while carrying on the traditions of the past—with the new Montopolis Recreation and Community Center.
A Place To Gather
Communities stake their reputation on the amenities they offer, to both visitors and residents. The more activity creating buzz around a community, the more desirable a place it is in which to live or visit. As a
A Focus For The Future
The crowd counted down “5-4-3-2-1,” and the fountain erupted with a colorful light display to celebrate the grand opening of the Sharon Prete Plaza in Round Rock,Texas. The plaza is named for the retired director
A Lot Of Miles Left
When the 22,600-square-foot Palm Bay Community Center (PBCC) opened in 1978 in Palm Bay, Fla., it was recognized as offering state-of-the-art amenities and putting the city’s parks and recreation facilities on the map.
Rich With History
At the center of what was once Santa Monica's fabled Gold Coast, the Annenberg Community Beach House traces its roots to the 1920s when newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst built an opulent seaside
Finding Purpose
Editor's Note: Parks & Rec Business magazine continues the 2004 series focusing on... Everything H20, from pool equipment, safety, staffing and programming to profiles and perspectives on the
Winds Of Change
It's unusual for any facility to sell 12,600 annual passes. It's even more unusual when the community that bought those 12,600 passes numbers around 20,000.More than half of the residents of West