HAVERFORD COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

Haverford Township Builds on a Commitment to Community Recreation &
Environmental Stewardship!  

Kimmel Bogrette is working with Haverford Township on the design of a new 35,000-square-foot Community Recreation & Environmental Education Center that will fulfill a long-held dream for increased indoor recreational offerings for community residents. The new Center will be a dramatic and fitting addition to a park and nature preserve being developed on a 160-acre portion of the site of the former Haverford State Hospital. Spaces in the building will provide much-needed recreational and educational opportunities for children, adults and seniors, with a double gymnasium for basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer, summer camps and special events; an indoor walking track; multipurpose rooms; a health and wellness area for fitness training for all ages. While the entire facility is being designed as an indoor and outdoor environmental lab with plans to include solar, wind, geothermal, bio-swales and green roof components, the indoor facility also includes interactive energy consumption displays and nature labs for environmental education inspired by the site’s streams, woodlands and habitats. The Township is proceeding with the design and construction of the Center after completing a MasterConcept Plan study with Kimmel Bogrette and Ballard*King recreational consultants in 2007 that explored costs and amenities for the new building based on community input about needs and desires for indoor recreation and environmental stewardship.