 Facility Project Archive
Highlights The Facilities Management Bureau has a strong past of providing the City and community with new, upgraded, and improved facilities. Among the many City facilities undertaken in the past year, the following are those that particularly stood out as outstanding accomplishments.
Admiral Kidd Park Teen Center
Admiral Kidd Park Teen/Community Center Building is a 4,500 square foot facility with social hall, fitness room, game room, a full kitchen, staff office, restrooms, and shade structures covered patio. Located at the west side of the City, it replaced a 1,500 square foot single story wooden frame stucco building. Construction started in December 2005 and was completed and opened to the public in March 2007. The final construction cost was $2.6 million dollars. This new public building is constructed mainly of reinforced concrete block with a glazed ceramic exterior wall tile finish and metal seam roof. The building is the cornerstone of improvements in the Park and will truly be a local point and source of pride for area residents. Residence can also reserve the facility for family gatherings and other events. 
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Silverado Park Pool Rehabilitation The twenty-two year old Silverado Park Pool underwent a total rehabilitation and upgrade. This 2.9 million dollar project included the replacement of the roof; renovation of the support areas for the pool, including locker rooms and bag check areas, staff offices, lifeguard and first aid stations, and pool lobby and cashier areas. It also included re-plastering and re-tiling of the 5000 square foot pool, plus new pool equipment and piping. The City of Long Beach received an Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program (UPARR) grant from the National Park Service for the rehabilitation of the Silverado Park Pool. The Pool was originally built in 1961, later enclosed in 1967, and had not been refurbished in over 20 years. Its mechanical and electrical systems were near the end of their useful lives. The roof leaked and the ventilation system was inefficient. In addition, the pool building had a somewhat prison-like appearance and appeared repelling rather than attractive to the public. Furthermore, heavy use of the pool and aged pool amenities of the Silverado Park Pool demanded the existing pool structure undergo major rehabilitations to bring it up to neighborhood pool standards. As such this Silverado Park Pool Rehabilitation should significantly resolve aesthetic, safety, disabled access, and maintenance issues. The rehabilitation should also increase the quality of recreation services and special interest programs, and positively affect the community. The pool rehabilitation includes state-of-the-art upgrades of the existing pool facility in terms of the renovation of the existing swimming pool, removal of existing deficiencies, compliance with Title 24 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), energy conservation, ventilation, heating, dehumidification and sanitation improvements, and improvements to the visual attractiveness of the Facility. The project was completed in October of 2006. 
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Pool Building Expansion
Located within Martin Luther King, Jr. Park the original MLK Pool Building was built in the 1980’s and is a 25-yard indoor, year-round swimming pool with diving boards and an adjacent kiddy pool. However, inadequate and dysfunctional pool entrance and pool amenities of the MLK Pool built in the 1980s demanded the existing pool structure undergo major rehabilitations to bring it up to good neighborhood pool standards. Thus for this project a 3,800 square foot building extension has been added to the North end of the existing pool facility. This addition includes a classroom, boys and girls locker rooms, staff offices, storage room, first aid and a cashier area. Work also included modifying the existing parking lot. The pool rehabilitation also includes a state-of-the-art design renovation of the pool structure, the reconstruction of the parking lot, the removal of existing deficiencies, compliance with Title 24 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), energy conservation, ventilation, heating, dehumidification and sanitation improvements, and other upgrades of the pool facility. MLK Pool Rehabilitation will significantly increase the quality and quantity of recreation services for the surrounding neighborhood and increase interest and participation in pool activities—all to the positive effect and well being of the area’s community. This 18-month long project was completed in May 2007.
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Mark Twain Neighborhood Library The Mark Twain Neighborhood Library, formerly called MacArthur Park Branch Library, is the City of Long Beach’s first LEED ™ Certified building. (LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design as defined by the U.S. Green Building Council.) As such this building has been designed and constructed to conserve natural resources, increase emergency efficiency, and improve indoor air quality. In other words, the building will last longer, cost less to operate, and will promote more productivity and be healthier to the occupants and visitors. Examples of facility green features include water saving by using drought tolerant plants, low flow faucets, and waterless urinals; electric energy savings through ample day lighting, funding research for green power, and automatic lights; and reducing the “heat island effect” with the use of light colored concrete in the parking lot and trees and canopies for shading. The project also minimized waste by recycling construction waste, diverting over 75% from landfills and incineration, and specifying forested wood and over 10% of the building cost in recycled materials. In addition the building has been made healthier to the occupants by using no CFC refrigerants in the HVAC unit, prohibiting smoking, use of CO2 monitors and use of low VOC paints and carpets, and the building will be flushed for two weeks prior to occupancy. This 8.2 million dollar construction project was completed two months ahead of schedule and came in a million dollars under budget with just over 2% in change orders. Furthermore, the project met the challenge of the Section 3 Guidelines by having the contractor exceed the goal of 30% low-income new hires from local Long Beach and Signal Hills communities and for the contractor subcontracting with five local Section 3 businesses. The library is a landmark facility, injecting new life to an old neighborhood in need of revitalization. It boasts of three firsts: it’s the first neighborhood library to be built in Long Beach in 30 years, the first 21st century library in Long Beach, and the first public “green building” in the City. When compared to the existing library, the new library is 8 times larger and the book collection has doubled. The infrastructure supports both data and wireless connections for an addition of over 70 computers (including laptops). As construction progressed this past year, there were already signs of economic and neighborhood revitalization in the surrounding community. The community is unique within Long Beach and has been named the “Anaheim Corridor” given the population includes Asian Pacific American, Hispanic, Caucasian, and African American. . About 44% of the population in the service area are 19 years and younger. Almost 75% of the kindergarten students in the local schools are first time English language learners. The library will play a major role in the lives of residents of this community, providing a center for education, technology and recreation. 
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Bay Shore Library Bay Shore Library has undergone an extensive remodel to bring it back aesthetically to it’s original form.The final two projects at Bay Shore Library were the repainting of the mural along 2nd Street and the landscaping along Bay Shore Avenue. The mural is of a pelican leaving its perch atop a stack of books.The mural was painted by Craig Cree Stone and incorporates three colors to make the illusion of a wall shadow. The landscaping work addressed the planters along the sidewalk along Bay Shore Avenue and the upper planter near the front door.Both planter incorporated drought tolerant plants that require little watering. The library’s grand re-opening was held on Saturday, June 30th in which the mural and landscaping are the final touch to the Library’s overall face-lift.  
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Last updated on July 17, 2007
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