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A leisure centre, sports centre, recreation center, or aquatics centre is a purpose-built building or site, usually owned and provided by the local government authority, where people can engage in a variety of sports and exercise, and keep fit.
The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center and Ice Rink, also known as the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center or Flushing Meadows Natatorium, is a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m 2) facility in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York City, with an Olympic-sized pool and an NHL-standard rink.
Canberra Olympic Pool: Opened in 1955 in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, this was the first 10-metre diving platform tower built in Australia. Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre : host to the 2000 Olympic Games diving events and provides an ongoing venue for diving competitions with diving towers and springboards.
The recreation center's boiler room was damaged in late 2021 during Hurricane Ida, forcing an indefinite closure of the facility. [103] After an anonymous benefactor gave $115,000, the recreation center's gym was renovated, reopening in March 2023. [104] [105] The recreation center's media lab reopened in February 2024 following a $100,000 ...
Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD) is a special parks district located in the eastern part of Washington County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Created in 1955, the district covers all of the city of Beaverton and many of those communities surrounding Beaverton in the Portland metropolitan area .
The Chelsea Recreation Center is a community center and athletic facility operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in Chelsea, Manhattan.At 56,500 square feet (5,250 m 2), the building is one of the largest neighborhood recreation centers in New York City, containing a 25-yard six lane pool, volleyball court, basketball court, fitness rooms, dance studios, game rooms ...
Land for the park complex, totaling 13-acres (5.3 ha), was donated by the state's Department of Highways to the city of Chehalis in 1945. [2] [3] [a]A proposal by a local fitness club was introduced in 1996 that planned to construct a fitness center, listed at 19,000 square feet (1,800 m 2), and integrate the existing community pool into the overall layout.
The Nassau County Aquatics Center is an aquatic facility located at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, NY. It is considered the largest Olympic-sized single-tank pool in North America. [2] At least 16 world records in swimming have been set in the facility. [2] It was built in 1998 for the Goodwill Games.