I went to buy a membership and the short haired lady kept giving me dirty looks then she forgot she was supposed to be typing in my info to the computer because she was so caught up in gossip with another lady (not sure if friend or if the other lady works with her). I love the pool and cleanliness of the place, but the staff ladies at the front desk are extremely rude and gossipy. For which we'd paid for memberships to! So we have to travel to a different center location, where we are "allowed" to use the playground? Very disappointing. As in, unless you pay extra, you can't use any of the recreational items for children. User ( 00:19) Great pool, but a little frustrated that we couldn't use the completely empty (!) outdoor fenced-in playground or access any items for use with small children (toys, play areas) because we were told they are for use only for paid-childcare services. Kids pool area and plenty of lifeguards on duty. Pool has 156ft water slide that will spin your head. If the indoor courts are full.go to the outddoor court. Upstairs gym, track above basketball courts. Basketball court down stairs, game rooms down stairs, and gym up stairs, and pool down stairs and there is a outside basketball court too it is a good place to play User ( 04:25) Built to support the youth a tough community. When no one was looking, a few people sneaked into the skate park to ride its rails and swoosh through the tiered, concrete bowl.Īs for the three-story water slide, the recreation center raffled off the first ride.What Others Say about this business: User ( 19:04) It is a good building. This week, staff made final touches, painting orange lines on the track and hanging acoustic panels in the multimedia room.īefore the center opened its doors to the public, it already had a few reviews. “We found that a lot of those children don’t have an after-school program to go to,” Thompson said, adding many lack the transportation to reach other centers.Ĭonstruction began in 2011. Still, Bayside’s need remained apparent, Thompson said.Īn average 72 percent of students at the three public schools near Williams Farm received free and reduced lunches in 2005, according to a Parks and Recreation news release citing data from Virginia Beach Public Schools. The foundation considered the Virginia Beach site but chose Norfolk’s Broad Creek area. The following year, the Ray and Joan Kroc Foundation and the Salvation Army researched communities throughout Hampton Roads in need of a new recreation center. The city acquired 57 acres of the Williams Farm property through its Open Space Acquisition Program in 2004. “This was really built to be a place for kids,” Thompson said. The pool area boasts a rock climbing wall, channel current, water fort, a spray pad that shoots water from the ground and the slide, named Tidal Surge. The recreation center features an indoor gym and track, fitness classroom, exercise machines with individual touch screens and an outdoor court where athletes can play basketball with hoops donated by the Good Newz Rehab Center.Ī multimedia center for teens includes video-editing stations and a sound booth. The 71,000-square-foot center, located off Newtown Road across from Bayside Middle School, is part of a $24.7 million project that included adding restrooms, picnic shelters and a walking trail to Williams Farm Community Park and the construction of a 25,000-square-foot in-ground skateboarding park, which also opens today. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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