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Pflugerville details Monarch Recreation Center: courts, aquatics, rooftop event space and a rare 'stand‑up' slide
Summary
City parks staff unveiled design and programming for the Monarch Recreation Center — a multilevel downtown facility with multiple basketball courts, indoor aquatics, an indoor turf area, a 300-person event room and a novel stand‑up water slide — funded through a mix of an anticipated bond and city sales-tax reserves.
Pflugerville parks officials on Monday gave commissioners a detailed look at the Monarch Recreation Center, a multilevel facility planned for the city’s new downtown East that will include multiple full-size basketball courts, indoor aquatics, a large indoor turf area and a rooftop event space.
Jeff O’Shea, assistant parks and recreation director, said the building measures roughly “129,000 square feet. It’s actually a 139,000 square feet,” and will include four high‑school‑sized basketball courts that can be divided for smaller games, four volleyball courts, 12 pickleball courts, a fitness and cardio area and multiple multiuse event rooms. “There’ll be an indoor aquatics area…a little wave pool type thing,” O’Shea said, describing programming intended for families, therapy and…
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