Contact Info

T 604.718.5800

F 604.718.5858

1661 Napier Street
Vancouver, BC V5L 4X4

INFO@BRITANNIARENEWAL.ORG

West Vancouver Community Centre, District of West Vancouver

September 3, 2015

The only major recreation centre in the district, it shares the general area with a large stand-alone seniors centre, a public library, and an ice arena (a few blocks away).

The community centre entry features a large atrium, which is the access point to the rest of the facilities. The site includes a refurbished pool, a dividable gym, a gymnastics facility, a dedicated teen centre, a child-minding centre, a board room, a number of multi-purpose rooms with a variety of floor surfaces, and a fitness centre with space rented out to private sports medicine businesses and physiotherapists.

Vancouver Coastal Health is a major tenant of the upper floors and holds public health clinics – new mum and baby, immunization, and community health education.

http://westvancouver.ca/parks-recreation/community-centres/west-vancouver-community-centre

Highlights

  • Room with sprung floor and mirrors on walls — usable multi-purpose space.
  • Marmoleum floors are apparently very expensive to maintain.
  • Gymnastics classes are run and owned by community centre (they run all the “learn to” programs) and generate $1 million revenue. As well as their own programs, there are two gymnastics clubs, which help to pay for the space; they also rent the space out.
  • Button-operated screen divides halves of the gym.
  • They offer Lego programs for kids!
  • Lazy river is separate from the kiddy pool so that if somebody sullies the kiddy pool, you don’t have to close both for the clean-up.
  • Garage-style overhead doors (like UHill and Norma Rose Point).
  • Change rooms should be all “family” rooms including privacy booths with showers and some open-area showers, too — need for universal-style change rooms that don’t exclude anyone; the change rooms are already being renovated to provide more universal ones.
  • Be sure to remember there’s both cost of construction and then cost of furnishings!
  • They have a huge amount of both surface and underground parking. How much is needed?