Buena Park : Huge Recreation Club to Offer Diverse Activities

Construction of a $22-million recreation center that will include a health club with 50 racquetball courts, about 50 bowling lanes and two swimming pools is under way in Buena Park.

Calling the center “the biggest of its kind in the Western United States,” Acting City Manager Pat Brown said the first phase of the 400,000-square-foot building--the health club--should be completed by December.

By next July, the now-vacant Treasury Building at Beach Boulevard and the Artesia Freeway will house the bowling alleys, Brown said. By January, 1987, when the California Rifle and Pistol Assn. plans to begin using an indoor rifle and gun range, the sports complex should be complete, he said.

Construction of the project, approved in 1983, began only last month, Brown said. Amid waterfalls, streams, pools and landscaping, the Racquetball World and Health Center also will feature an exercise area with weightlifting and aerobic dance. The center also will include a coed Jacuzzi, saunas, steam rooms and tanning rooms.