ENCINO : Officials Dedicate Recreation Building
A new recreation building was dedicated Thursday at the Balboa Sports Center in Encino, the most heavily used city park in the San Fernando Valley.
The $2.5-million, 17,000-square-foot facility features California mission-style architecture and houses a gym, meeting rooms, kitchen, fitness room, stage, lockers and showers.
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Joy Picus was among the officials who participated in the dedication ceremony. “This is a much needed and long-awaited facility,” Picus said. “It will serve as a community center that will provide opportunities for recreational and community events.”
The building is part of a master plan for the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, which also includes two golf courses, a lake and wildlife refuge. The 80-acre Balboa Sports Complex at Balboa and Burbank boulevards also has tennis courts, soccer and baseball fields, outdoor basketball courts and picnic grounds.
Registration is under way for more than a dozen adult, teen-ager and youth sports and exercise classes at the gym. The classes will range from peewee basketball and tiny-tot sports to yoga courses and adult volleyball.
Information on the classes can be obtained by calling (818) 343-4143.
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