Mesa Adds to Collection of Swimming Venues

Kino Aquatic Center. Photo: City of Mesa

Expected to open in February 2011, the city of Mesa (www.mesaaz.gov, www.visitmesa.com) recently broke ground on its ninth aquatic center, Skyline. The 130,000-square-foot aquatic center’s main attraction will be centered on two pools.

The racing pool will boast eight fifty-meter racing lanes which can be reconfigured into twenty-five-yard racing lanes or two water polo courses and feature a diving tank with one and three-meter diving boards.

The zero-entry recreation pool will feature a slide, a variety of aquatic play toys and six twenty-five-yard lanes for swimmers to warm-up before races or to be used for swimming lessons.

In addition to the pool, the center will include a separate building for restrooms, lockers, offices, and a classroom. A shaded area with seating, vending machines and bleachers for up to twelve hundred spectators will also be constructed.

The Skyline Aquatic Center will join an already impressive roster of venues including the newly enhanced Kino Aquatic Center, which received an $8 million upgrade in 2009.

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