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The Kansas City Department of Parks and
Recreation owns 41 buildings or facilities as part of Process
its system. This list is separate from the numerous
small restroom and picnic shelters within its parks. The consultant team toured all 21 of these
This number does not include the bathhouses facilities during the months of March, April,
associated with outdoor swimming pools or the and May 2023. As was done for the parks, the
clubhouses associated with the five municipal golf consultant team worked with department staff to
courses. These 41 facilities house the community, create an assessment tool which could be utilized
cultural, operations and maintenance, and other effectively for these different structures. As with
operational divisions of the department. They the parks, this process involved taking numeric
can be considered in four different categories. inventory of items, amenities, and functions
There are 10 community centers directly found on-site at each of the buildings, as well as
operated by department staff which facilitate all
indoor recreation programming provided by the
department. There are 5 operations buildings
across the city which house the department’s
operations an d maintenance, planning, and 20 20 Accessibility
administration staff, as well as its fleet of vehicles.
There are 13 museums and other cultural facilities
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buildings which the department owns but, in no possible PTS
case, does it directly operate. These include
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institutions such as the Kansas City Museum in 30/20 Comfort &
Corinthian Hall, the Kansas City Zoo, Starlight Character
Theater, the Black Archives of Mid-America,
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and the World War I Museum, just to name a possible PTS
few. These facilities are primarily operated and
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possesses 13 other facilities which serve a variety 10/20 Financial Viability/
maintained by the not-for-profit organizations
which inhabit them. Lastly, the department
Operations
of recreation purposes and partners. Some of possible PTS
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these are leased to other organizations such as
the Ronald McDonald House or the Blue Valley
Recreation Center. Some serve interpretive 40 40 Conditions
purposes like the Lakeside Nature Center or the
Loose Park Garden Center. A few others are
closed buildings that have a purpose yet to be possible PTS
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redefined. The department asked the team to
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inventory and assess 21 of these structures: the
10 community centers, 5 operations facilities, and 100 Total Possible Sore
6 of the other facilities.
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total PTS

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