Overview
The Roanoke County Board of Supervisors voted to execute a Comprehensive Agreement with FirstChoice Public-Private Partners (English Construction Company and Moseley Architects) for the development of a new multi-generational recreation center. Additionally, the Supervisors voted to approve a public-private partnership agreement with FirstChoice to provide infrastructure improvements that will aid in the construction and development of a new business park adjacent to the site of the family-based recreation center. The recreation center and business park is located off of Woodhaven Road near the intersection of Interstates 81 and 591 in North Roanoke County. The multi-generational recreation center serves as that anchor and entrance to the new 200-acre business campus, designed to attract upscale corporations to Roanoke County and provide tax revenue through economic development and tourism.
The 76,000-square-foot building includes a double gymnasium, fitness center, two aerobics rooms, three multi-purpose program rooms, and an indoor aquatics center with an adjoining birthday party room. In addition, the Center includes a 20,000-square-foot outdoor leisure pool with large slides and a lazy river dubbed “Splash Valley.” The building also includes an indoor walking track that offers sweeping vistas of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
Timmons Group also designed the Valley Point Parkway utility upgrades and extensions (water and sewer) that serve the recreation center and the initial tenants of the neighboring business campus. The project has received LEED® Gold certification.
