Sandy Community Campus
The City Council has a long-standing goal of developing a multi-faceted recreation, aquatic, and community center at the site of the former Cedar Ridge Middle School, which was acquired by the City in 2016.
Click here to access a long-term timeline of the Community Campus project, view documents including the original Opsis plan, and access survey and polling data.
UPDATE: JANUARY 2023
The City is proceeding with planning for a new community park in the lower field area behind the Community Campus buildings. Click here for all the updates on this exciting park project!
UPDATE: DECEMBER 2022
The RFP for Park Design and Development and a Recreation and Aquatic Center concept that was out in May 2022 produced no submissions.
In October 2022, another RFP went out for the Community Campus Park Improvement which would focus on developing a community park including but not limited to include a bike park/pump track, skate park, picnic areas, parking, as well as necessary upgrades to the site and utilities. The city received 4 submissions and interviewed 3 firms. A letter of intent to proceed has been issued for the preferred firm. Public engagement for this project will begin in January 2023.
For the most up to date information on this rfp, follow this link.
UPDATE: MAY 2022
In May 2022, the City issued a Request for Proposals in an effort to contract with an architecture and engineering firm to provide:
- Park Design, Bid, and Build plans for park development at the Community Campus; and
- Recreation and Aquatic Center Schematic Designs to produce a bond-ready concept plan and specifications for a Recreation and Aquatics Center, building upon the work and recommendations of the Pool Exploratory Task Force.
POOL EXPLORATORY TASK FORCE - 2021
From July through December 2021, the Pool Exploratory Task Force worked to assess the City’s current and future aquatic program needs and envisioning the most cost effective and functional facility to meet those needs. Options were explored to address the physical and program deficiencies of the outdated Olin Y. Bignall Aquatic Center by either repairing and reopening the facility, or by pursuing one of the following options: 1) renovating the existing natatorium, 2) renovating the natatorium and constructing an addition, or 3) constructing a new aquatic facility.
PETF Recommendation
- The PETF determined that repairing and reopening the aquatic center as currently configured is not feasible. Substantial funds would be required to address critical needs related to pool infrastructure and building systems before the public could be served. The current facility also does not provide a dedicated recreation pool. Certain aspects of the building's architecture make comprehensive renovation of the structure difficult and expensive.
- The PETF instead recommends constructing a new aquatic center elsewhere on the Campus property. The report includes details on desired facility features, as well as rough estimates of capital and operations costs.
- The consultant team determined that an advantageous strategy would be to construct an aquatic center addition to the middle school annex building (bunker building), which itself could be leveraged into a new community center space in the future.
Click below to read the PETF's final report in full.
