No opening date yet for Wake Forest's new pool complex
For Wake Forest families, eagerly anticipating the opening of the new pool complex at Holding Park, I was hopeful I would have some good news for you.
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Sadly, the project, which was delayed starting in June after massive floods is still under construction with no opening date set.
"Unfortunately, we still don’t have a firm date for completion of the project," said Edward Austin, the town's athletics and aquatics superintendent, in an email.
The pool had been slated to open in late June or early July, but very rainy weather in June delayed those plans indefinitely. Rains on June 10 and June 11 prevented workers from starting the final phase of the construction, which included pouring the concrete pool deck, installing fencing and applying the remaining pool plastering.
The project, forced by leaks in the original 75-year-old pool, started more than a year ago. As I wrote last year, while repairing a leak in the existing pool in 2016, contractors found major issues related to the integrity of the pool walls, shutting it down for both the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The pool hadn't seen major renovations for 40 years, according to town officials.
The town's board of commissioners approved plans for the $2.5 million replacement in October 2016. The complex will have three separate bodies of water when it opens:
- a six-lane, 25-meter lap pool;
- a children's pool with a small slide and other play pieces; and
- a third pool with two 20-foot-tall water slides - one open and the other enclosed.
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