Consultants recommend phased approach: outdoor pool fix, optional indoor aquatics, turf field house or full recreation center

Consultants CSL and Studio CKA presented a final recreation‑center feasibility study to the Kennewick City Council at the Jan. 14 workshop, offering a phased approach that starts with stabilizing and improving the city’s deteriorating outdoor pool and lays out several options for subsequent investments: a standalone indoor aquatics center, an indoor turf field house, renovation/expansion of the Kennewick Activity Center, or a full‑service recreation center that bundles aquatics and gymnasium/community spaces.

Short term: outdoor pool improvements. The consultants proposed a multi‑phase plan for the outdoor facility that they said could keep the pool operational while constructing a new bathhouse and a new recreational leisure pool alongside a competitive lap pool. The presentation estimated the combined phased investment at just under $12,000,000 and included a conservative pro forma that shows an estimated annual operating subsidy of roughly $130,000 in…