New Student Activity Center for Mooseheart Child City & School
Larson & Darby Group · Mooseheart, IL
Overview
The Mooseheart Activities Center (MAC) is a new student activity center on the Moosheart campus, improving and expanding recreational facilities for its students and residents. As an activity center, the MAC serves as an important community hub providing recreational activity space from indoor and outdoor play areas, a movie theater, bowling alley, exercise rooms, video gaming areas, multipurpose spaces, and an outdoor splash pad.
Moosheart is a unique residential facility, supported and operated by the Loyal Order of Moose fraternal and service organization. Located on a 1,000-acre campus just outside of Chicago, Mooseheart operates as a home for at risk children and teens from infancy through high school, providing them with a living and learning environment that offers community, stability, education, and personal growth. The students of Mooseheart live in an array of residential units on campus in an environment designed to provide a wholesome, supportive, and enriching daily life. As part of the creation of this supportive environment, Mooseheart recently undertook a $5.2M project to consolidate and improve aging recreational facilities on campus. The Moosheart Activities Center (MAC) provides new activity and play spaces for residents - from toddlers to high school seniors - to enjoy. The space program includes an exercise room with the latest fitness equipment, multi-purpose activity space with multi-station video game areas, movie theater space with with seating for 41, 4-lane regulation bowling alley, and an outdoor splash pad. The building also includes a concessions area to further support the activities in this new center. The building is designed in a colorful palette of durable materials with wall graphics and furnishings designed to withstand the use of the many happy children and teens who will use the facility.
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