Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center

Phoenix, Arizona

Project Info

  • Client

    The Salvation Army

  • Size

    137,000 SF

  • Delivery method

    CMAR

  • Role on project

    Prime Architect in association with Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture

  • Project Completion:

    2012

  • Project Budget:

    $32M

  • DFDG Team Members
  • Darrin Orndorff

    Project Manager

  • Becky Tomasek

    Interior Design

The 137,000-square-foot Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center is a beacon of hope and an agent of change in the Phoenix South Mountain area.

When Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, passed away in October 2003, she left $1.5 billion to The Salvation Army—the largest charitable gift ever given to the organization. This funding was designated to build a series of state-of-the-art community centers nationwide. The Phoenix South Mountain facility is one of the largest in the family of Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers.

The many amenities include a multipurpose room/events hall with seating for 250 for banquets; classrooms; a teen game room; a computer room; an arts and crafts room; a library; a child watch/babysitting room; a community wellness center; a gymnasium accommodating three NBA-sized basketball courts and nine volleyball courts; a 348-seat chapel/performing arts theater; a mission services center; a 1/8 mile elevated walk/jog track; a rock-climbing wall; a two-ring boxing center; and outdoor fields with concessions and an outdoor amphitheater.

Visitors can also enjoy the 23,600-square-foot indoor aquatic center, which includes an indoor warm-water leisure pool with a hot-water whirlpool spa and outdoor spray gardens.

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