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Iowa City has released four design concepts for the new City Park Pool and is looking for more public input to guide to the design process.

Following a recommendation from consultants hired by the city earlier this year, the council voted this week to replace the 75-year-old City Park Pool, which, according to the consultants’ report, loses 5 million gallons of water each year.

Hunter 09/07/23 There will be a new City Park Pool come 2026. The Iowa City City Council has voted unanimously to entirely replace the pool, rather than remodel

Construction workers will break ground at the historic City Park Pool in Iowa City for a full remodel next year.  Iowa City’s City Park Pool will be entirely replaced following the Iowa City City Council’s unanimous decision on the future of the pool facility Tuesday night. Consultants for the project presented their findings of the...

Iowa City council voted unanimously to replace the existing pool after reviewing hundreds of photos of deterioration and a structural analysis.

Andrew Caputo, of Williams Architects, shares a screen during a remote meeting of the committee-of-the-whole of Bloomington City Council on Monday, March 15, 2021. The O’Neil Park and Pool project, now expected to cost about $11.5 million, could be voted on by the  Bloomington City Council as early as next week.  After a presentation at its committee-of-the-whole meeting on Monday, the council learned that despite the project’s cost coming in about $1.5 million higher than expected, City ...

City of Bloomington Nearly 100 people took up the citys offer to ask questions about early designs for Bloomington’s new pool and skateboard area planned for O’Neil Park. Set to open in May 2022, the aquatic center at the corner of Chestnut Street and White Oak Road, would replace the west side’s 45-year-old pool that was razed last fall. Under the current plan, O’Neil would become the only public water park in the Twin Cities to feature a lazy river.  On Thursday evening, Bloomingto...