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Recreation Center: Why Racquetball Makes Sense

Why Your Recreation Center Should Include Racquetball As a recreation center, you should always be looking into ways to improve your facilities through building or renovating. Most community centers come standard with basketball courts, fitness centers, and often swimming pools, but the smaller amenities set you apart from the competition.One

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Facility Management: Hosting Summer Camp

Facility Management: Hosting Summer Camps at Your Facility If you plan to host your own summer camp, there are quite a few steps to ensure the camp’s success. Most summer camps at sports facilities are day-time programs, which don’t require you to provide boarding for the attendees. That eliminates some

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Facility Planning: How To Manage Community Swimming Pools

Facility Planning For Community Swimming Pools If you are the facility manager or planner for a community center, one of your biggest money makers is likely your pool. In smaller towns especially, the community pool is often the biggest attraction during the summer. This is great for business and great

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How to Secure Development Funding for a Sports Camp

Development Funding: How to Fund a Sports Training Camp One of the most difficult aspects of creating an athletic training camp is securing development funding. Training camps are expensive with the need to invest in equipment, coaching staffs, transportation, and sometimes boarding for your athletes. In order to cover these

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Feasibility Study: Five Reasons Why You Need To Conduct One

Your roadmap to obtaining development funding for a sports complex project. The ribbon cutting for a new sports complex represents a momentous occasion for any community. It also underscores an important story about how venues come to life. All sports complex development projects involve a tremendous investment of time, effort

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How to Build an Excellent Playground at Your Recreation Center

Building a Playground at Your Recreation Center A playground can be an excellent feature to attract the community to your recreation center. A playground raises the local property value substantially and gives families a place where their children can get active. Now that you have decided to build a playground

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Community Center: How To Get Your Town More Involved

Tips For Boosting Community Involvement At Your Community Center A community center is a great way to connect a community and develop relationships. However, the community center is only the facilitator. The people of your town or city have to be on board as well — and as many facility

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How to Save Money When Purchasing FF&E

Ways to Save Money on FF&E One mistake that many new sports facilities make when running their business is overpaying for FF&E (furniture, fixtures, and equipment). Many business owners believe that if they spend big on FF&E that they will be more likely to attract customers. That isn’t necessarily the

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Sports Complex Design: How To Reach Younger Demographics

Reaching Younger Demographics With Sports Complex Design Over the last decade, young people have been becoming less and less physically active, which has made the jobs of community centers and sports complexes that much harder. Young people are the lifeblood of any sports complex, and without them, facilities are going

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