The City of Tumwater is inviting residents to its Community Center Design Project Community Workshop next week.
Funded by the Tumwater Metropolitan Parks District, the city has partnered with Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture, which was selected in June 2024 out of five competing firms to design the city’s new community center.
The workshop will be held on Monday, Jan. 13, from 6-8 p.m. in the Tumwater Middle School Cafeteria, 6335 Littlerock Road SW, Tumwater, 98512.
The workshop will discuss public feedback from the previous open house and results from a recent community survey. It will also present the preliminary building program and project budget, and assess the preferred sites for the center.
During the workshop, attendees can provide input and ask questions.
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KarenM
The location of this community center is important. The name says what is needed. This needs to be close to the 'center' to be accessible to people. It also needs to be in the community. The BAR Holdings location that is apparently still in consideration is just plain wrong. That property is not inside the city limits. It is south of anything related to the center. It is not on a bus route.
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Southsoundguy
Where is the center of Tumwater? Tumwater is just an area on the map, there isn't really a center since it was demolished for I-5.
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KarenM
Couple of things on location of this facility.
It should be on an existing transit route and that should be one that has reasonable frequency. We should not expect transit to extend their service.
The 'center' is a location that is at least closer in distance to more Tumwater residents than the far south end of the city.
It is too bad that the freeway cut Tumwater across and made a central downtown hard to re-create. Meanwhile, public facilities should not be located at the outer fringes.
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