A new +-78,300 sq. ft. indoor recreation and aquatics center at the existing Pella Sports Park located in Pella, IA is being designed to foster community, wellness, and recreation. The design for a new recreation center will include two stories with three (3) full size gymnasiums, one (1) auxiliary multi-purpose gym, elevated indoor walking track, workout areas, competition swimming pool, recreational swimming pool, locker rooms, restrooms, meeting spaces, concessions, and specialty features such as a boulder climbing wall and turfed activity area. The building will be constructed with concrete footings and foundations, structural steel framing, precast concrete wall panels, exterior metal wall panels, CMU walls, steel stud walls, aluminum curtainwall and storefront, and insulated single ply membrane roofing system. A temporary access road to the site will be needed. Alternates have been designed to consider construction cost reductions based on the bidding environment.
