![]() ![]() According to the city's community center website, /, debt service will be approximately $2.3 million per year. The community center portion of the project, which is estimated to cost approximately $55 million, will be paid for by issuing $40 million in long-term debt. The more we thought about how the community center should flow, we can get the benefits of having people move throughout the building and deal with some of the, 'Well, why isn't the gym on this floor?' with some signage and wayfinding."Ĭity officials expect the community center to open in 2024. "One thing we talked about with the partners is the importance of having this entire building feel like one facility and not a community center sandwich. "Whereas, if you look at option A, you've got these two floors that are almost kind of a gap between them and what really is the community center. "If you compare that with option A, this does get the community center members moving on each of the floors," Schoeny said. Schoeny said scheme B provides more of the multigenerational components that he prefers for the community center. "The (multiuse) gym is also going to be used by the (building) partners quite a bit for physical therapy," he said. While the fifth-floor gyms would be the same size as the Upper Arlington High School gym and would allow for activities such as basketball, pickleball and volleyball, Hall said the gym on the third floor in scheme B would be a multiuse gym with a rubberized surface that could be used for those activities and events for the community and the building's tenants. ![]() Hall and City Manager Steve Schoeny said scheme B also creates additional "found" spaces that would allow more activities and planning. "We can integrate OSU and all those other tenants to this facility, as well as spaces being integrated into it." ![]() "We feel like (with scheme B) we've got really great organization to the building. "By pushing the parking down one level and the advantage of gaining that extra square footage at grade level for program space, that allows us to push the building down a floor," Hall said.
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