A 22,196-square-foot fitness center with three swimming pools is almost ready for prime time in Novato.
“We are substatially completed with the construction,” Ryan Byrne, Athletic Director for the College of Marin, said of the new $35.7 million Miwok Aquatics and Fitness Center nearly completed at the college’s Indian Valley campus in Novato. “We should be starting to be able to use the facility by the end of September.”
The College of Marin Board of Trustees approved spending $91,142 on a laundry list of remaining equipment needed to finish construction on the three outdoor swimming pools. The Miwok center will have a 50-meter main pool, a smaller warm-up pool and a dive pool with a support center and tower.
The Miwok facility will replace the current IVC pool that is used by college students and staff and the public. The new facility also features a fitness center, a wood-floored aerobics classroom, classrooms, movement rooms, conference room, several offices, along with an Athletic Training Room/Lifeguard station, is being built mostly with taxpayer-approved Measure B bond funds.
In addition to the Measure B funds, approximately $8.5 million of the total cost is coming from a private donation earmarked for the dive pool tower and support center building. That donation is being offered anonymously and was accepted by the trustees last year.
Of the aquatic and fitness center’s total 22,196 square feet, 18,190 square feet will be in the main building, 986 square feet in the dive center support building and 3,020 square feet in the three pools’ mechanical building.
When it opens, the new center will be the second major building completed with Measure B funds at the Novato campus within the last year. In October, the college announced the opening of the Bill and Adele Jonas Center, a 15,600-square-foot conference center, on campus.