On November 12, 2024 at 4:00 pm, Frisco Town Council will cut the ribbon on the new Slopeside Hall project at the Frisco Adventure Park. Slopeside Hall, located at 605 Recreation Way, will have more space for youth camps, community programs, and events and will house Recreation Department staff offices on the second floor. This project also includes a tube storage building, a plaza, and a remodel at the Day Lodge, which is still under construction and should be completed by early December.
Project Background
A new building at the Peninsula Recreation Area (PRA) was initially budgeted for in 2019 and reviewed with Town Council in May 2019 when Council expressed concerns about the proposed location for the new building and a desire to understand the future of the PRA in a more comprehensive way. Subsequently, Town Council directed staff to reallocate the funds budgeted for 2019 to complete a comprehensive vision and project implementation plan for the PRA that identified current uses and capacities, and which would serve as a guiding document for future development and improvements. This planning process kicked off in 2019 with significant community input and was completed in 2020, with Council adopting the final plan on October 27, 2020. One of the high priority projects identified in this plan is the addition of a new administration and multi-purpose space building, Slopeside Hall (originally named the Village Center).
The Frisco Recreation Department has continued to grow their youth no-school, afterschool, and summer camp programming, and the comprehensive plan completed in 2020 acknowledged that a multi-purpose space could serve as a vital basecamp for Frisco’s youth programming. The multi-purpose space will also be made available for community rentals and for event needs, such as registration for athletic events. Since 2010, recreation staff have been officed out of temporary offices in the basement of the Frisco Adventure Park Day Lodge, and Slopeside Hall will allow recreation staff to have offices where they can observe the Adventure Park’s recreational amenities and be in the same space as youth programming.
The 7,880 square foot Slopeside Hall building was built to exceed the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) requirements by featuring solar panels and a Variable Refrigerant Flow HVAC system to achieve net-zero impact. This project also includes a plaza between the Day Lodge and Slopeside Hall, which connects the buildings and can be used for events and community gatherings. A new tube storage building has also replaced the storage container that had been housing tubes, and the improvements at the Day Lodge include expanding the kitchen facilities and the installation of service elevator for access to event equipment in the basement. This will allow the Day Lodge to host a third-party concessionaire in the winter to serve a greater variety of food, as well as improving the experience for summer rentals of the building. $10 million dollars were budgeted across 2023 and 2024 to complete all aspects of this project.