Big Plans

Construction is underway for a new community center in Swope Park:

The Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department announced Tuesday it plans to build a new 45 thousand square foot community center in Swope Park. It will be built at 63rd and Jackson, northwest of the starlight theater. Planners say the center will have a collegiate size basketball court, sauna, steam rooms, a senior center and much more. Construction on the new community center will start at the first of the year. It's expected to open in June 2007.

Sounds like an impressive list of facilities that almost everyone in this city will be too scared to use.