Crestwood Aldermen Give Feedback on Design for Family Games Complex
Date Posted: June 30, 2026
Posted In: Projects,
From Call Newspapers: The Crestwood Board of Aldermen reviewed an updated design for the new Family Games Complex at its June 23 meeting. The complex will be located in Whitecliff Park at the location of the current Crestwood Community Center and its parking lot; the existing community center will be torn down since its replacement, The Cliffs, is currently under construction across the way.
“This new approach ultimately creates more recreation space, more gathering space and really more long-term value, I think, than the original concept does,” Mayor Scott Shipley said about the updated design for the complex.
Representatives from Bond Architects, the firm that has been designing the Family Games Complex, gave a short presentation at the meeting on the details of the new design. Aldermen then had the chance to give feedback, which will be taken into consideration during the finalization of the design.
Crestwood and Bond Architects are still working through final budget considerations, which may minorly influence aspects of the current site layout.
On the north side of the site, the city would construct four regulation pickleball courts, along with two 20-foot by 20-foot concrete patios with pavilions and landscaping. A gated access drive would wrap around the courts using a path that already exists. Architects mentioned that they are aiming to reuse what they can from the existing design to help with the cost.
The central portion of the site would be transformed into an amphitheater for productions like those put on by the Whitecliff Summer Playhouse. Currently, public restrooms and green room restrooms are both slated to go behind a storage unit for the productions, which itself sits behind a covered 37-by-26 foot stage.
The stage would be at the front of a gently sloping, terraced turf amphitheater where attendees of productions in the park can sit on picnic blankets and lawn chairs. The amphitheater seating is roughly 111-by-60 feet, which is meant to seat 300-500 people.