Inside the Eastway Regional Recreation Center: New facility opens on Charlotte s east side
For those looking for fitness, the center offers an indoor track, two levels of exercise equipment, and a state-of-the-art indoor gymnasium. Author: Ashley Daley Updated: 7:17 PM EDT May 3, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. The new Eastway Regional Recreation Center is rising up in the middle of a 100-acre park in Charlotte s Eastway neighborhood. The center, a 100,000 square foot facility located at 3150 Eastway Park Drive, is part fitness center, part waterpark, part community center.
“The East side of town was very vocal about, hey look, we don’t have anything like this, and we really need it,” said recreational manager Daniel Leatherman.
/ People use Balancing Act, a new public art display in First Ward Park, to make music beneath the Charlotte skyline.
Tucked off at one side of Charlotte’s First Ward Park is an artistic masterpiece and a technological work of wonder.
And you might overlook it if you walk by because it simply looks like three large, colorful Frisbee discs poking out from the grass.
“Balancing Act” by Daily tous les jours is the city’s newest public art display installed with the help of the Arts & Science Council, and it has actually been at First Ward Park since February 2020. Thanks to COVID-19, what was intended to be a four-month prototype process extended into this year, when the display was formally unveiled.
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