City of Fort Worth, TX

08/21/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/21/2024 08:06

Parks budget will deliver new community center, revamped golf course

Parks budget will deliver new community center, revamped golf course

Published on August 21, 2024

As part of a $72.7 million recommended budget for Fiscal Year 2025, the Park & Recreation Department will open a community center in the fast-growing northwest sector of Fort Worth and reopen Meadowbrook Golf Course after a complete renovation.

Operation and management changes at the City's community centers are coming too.

Northwest Community Center opening

In the FY25 budget, additional staffing dollars will ensure that Northwest Community Center is fully staffed and ready to open next year.

The staff that is already on board has been meeting with the community and establishing programs based on feedback.

Northwest Community Center will be a dynamic hub for local residents. There will be several meeting rooms, a culinary-type kitchen, state-of-the-art fitness room, group fitness room, basketball gym and more.

Expect an after-school program and other programming. Current classes under contract are tai chi, floorball, art classes, soccer skills, ballet/tap/tumbling, cricut classes, gardening, bingo and others.

To learn more about the new center, contact Victoria Leach.

Meadowbrook Golf Course status

A $13 million complete renovation of Meadowbrook Golf Course on the east side of Fort Worth will include rerouting the entire course, new irrigation, expanded and renovated parking areas, a new putting green and a short-game practice area.

The course is expected to reopen in summer 2025.

The City acquired the former Meadowbrook Country Club in 1938.

Community center merger

Starting Oct. 1, all City of Fort Worth community centers will be managed by the Park & Recreation Department. (For the past several years, some had been handled by PARD, while some where managed by the Neighborhood Services Department.)

The merger achieves these goals:

  • Allows the City to focus on priorities and initiatives that improve customer service and efficiency.
  • Leverages internal initiatives to support and promote core values and desired organizational changes.
  • Improves customer experience through more efficient, effective and responsive programs and services through seamless alignment of resources.
  • Improves the ability to communicate as one voice for the City's community centers.
  • Enhances efficiencies for operations, facility management and corporate and department-specific decisions.
  • Improves the City's ability to coordinate center programs with partner agencies including nonprofits, school districts and other government agencies.
  • Improves the City's ability to coordinate center projects with other city departments.

What happens next: City Council is expected to vote on the FY 2025 budget on Sept. 17 following a series of budget workshops and a public hearing. The City's new fiscal year starts Oct. 1.

Share your feedback: Community open houses are being held in each council district starting this week:

Photo:Voters approved the Northwest Community Center project as part of the 2018 Bond.

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