Colorado Real Estate Journal - March 2, 2016
Red Rocks Community College, with Pinkard Construction Company and architect Davis Partnership, broke ground on RRCC’s new Campus Recreation Center. The 38,000-gross-square-foot project includes the construction of a new student recreation center addition to the main building at the Lakewood campus and 3,000 sf of renovations in the existing building. The new two-story building will include a gym, climbing and bouldering wall, exercise studios, cardio/strength equipment spaces, outdoor fitness deck, meeting rooms, offices and student gathering areas. The new facility will be structural steel and load-bearing masonry with glass curtainwall, brick and translucent panel/ plastic resin exterior skin and will feature a radiant in-floor heating system, according to Pinkard. The renovation encompasses the existing fitness center, which will be transformed into meeting space and a catering kitchen, along with an east entry retrofit. Site work will include grading/earthwork, upgrades to the existing athletic field, drainage, utilities and landscaping, while maintaining access and services to the existing buildings. Pinkard’s final bid came in $2 million below Red Rocks’ budget. The project is the result of a planning and feasibility study conducted in 2013 and a vote by the Red Rocks student body. In spring 2014 students voted in favor of a fee increase to support the facility. A planning committee consisting of RRCC student government members and RRCC staff brought the project to fruition. Construction of the $10.2 million facility is expected to be complete March 2017.