{"id":9139,"date":"2025-10-17T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:02:07","slug":"heights-family-aquatic-center-to-get-new-shade-play-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9139\/","title":{"rendered":"Heights Family Aquatic Center to get new shade, play structure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRichardson residents can expect to see an improved play structure, new shade canopies and other renovations to the Heights Family Aquatic Center next summer.<\/p>\n

Richardson City Council approved an $868,452 construction contract for renovations to the Heights Family Aquatic Center at an Oct. 13<\/a> meeting. The center is the city\u2019s most used pool for recreational swimming, according to city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The renovation plans are part of the city\u2019s Aquatics Master Plan<\/a>, which was passed earlier this year<\/a> in an effort to modernize the city\u2019s aquatic facilities and programming.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

According to city documents<\/a>, the renovation will address the general wear and tear that has affected the facility since its opening in 2013, as well as strong public interest in adding more shading options.<\/p>\n

Some of these changes will include upgrading the main play structure at the leisure pool, replacing the shade structure over the tot pool and other existing canopies, and installing a new covered area.<\/p>\n

In addition, there are plans to upgrade all of the pools\u2019 pumps, motors, valves and piping.<\/p>\n

The project is scheduled to begin in October 2025 and wrap up in May 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson residents can expect to see an improved play structure, new shade canopies and other renovations to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8571,8574,8575,160,162,161,8572,8576,8573],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-aquatic-center","tag-heights-family-aquatic-center","tag-new-pools","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-pools-near-me","tag-pools-with-play-structures","tag-richardson-pools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}