Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec offices on the move
Published 2:39 pm Monday, August 17, 2015
For the Reporter
Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation Department Administration offices are moving to a temporary location for the next several months to make way for construction of the new Auburn Community Center and transformation of the administration building into the Youth/Teen Center at Les Gove Park on the Auburn Community Campus.
Scheduled activities in the Les Gove Park Gymnasium, such as Indoor Playground, Parents Night Out, sport leagues and open gym activities, will continue without interruption during the construction process.
The new administration offices will be in the Game Farm North Annex Building just north of Game Farm Park at the corner of Riverwalk Drive Southeast and R Street Southeast, at 2840 Riverwalk Drive SE.
Main office hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the new location to accommodate walk-in customers, registration and inquiries. Over-the-phone registrations and inquiries will have additional evening hours and will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday-Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.
On-line class registrations, available at www.auburnwa.gov/play, will be accepted 24 hours a day.
New center on the way
The City of Auburn is beginning construction on a combined community center and Youth/Teen Center at the north end of Les Gove Community Campus, adjacent to the gymnasium.
Construction will begin in September and will is expected to be completed by summer 2016. It’s an exciting project that will provide additional amenities to the entire City.
The community and youth/teen center will provide approximately 21,000 square feet of building space to be used for educational, cultural and social activities. Emphasis will be made on creating spaces that will attract teens and encourage cross-generational interactions with the existing neighboring Senior Activity Center and Gymnasium.
The community and youth/teen center will be created by renovating the City’s existing Parks, Recreation and Arts Administration Building (approximately 7,300 square feet) and adding approximately 13,700 square feet of new building space.
The maximum project budget is $9 million ($3 million provided by the taxpayers of Washington state through the Projects that Strengthen Youth and Families Program and $6,000,000 from the City of Auburn).
The budget includes construction and other costs like architects and engineers, permits, furniture and equipment and sales tax.
For details about what’s happening at the Auburn Community Campus, visit www.auburnwa.gov/communitycampus.
