Committee presents concept for $3 million Roeland Park Community Center improvement project

The Roeland Park city council last week heard a final report from a group tasked with exploring ideas for the future of the community center that calls for $3 million in interior and exterior improvements.

The city’s Ad Hoc Community Center Design Committee, a temporary committee tasked with developing concepts for the facility, has worked with Kansas City, Mo.-based SFS Architecture on the design project. The goal of the project was to assess the practical needs of the community center, as well as to offer “direction for the capital investment plan and how to maximize use of the community center,” according to city documents.

Located in the former Skyline Elementary building next to the pool complex at 4850 Rosewood Dr., Roeland Park’s community center has had only minor renovations since it was shuttered by the Shawnee Mission School District in 1982 and eventually taken over by the city.