Location: 55 Buford Highway, Suwanee, GA 30024 Description Acres: 304 George Pierce Community Recreation Center and Prime Timers Point Senior Activity Center located at George Pierce Park in Suwanee recently opened. The 16,000-square-foot community center, the fourth community center operated by Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation, features a community room, catering kitchen, three classrooms, a dance/aerobic studio, game room, and outdoor basketball courts. The attached 9,500-square-foot Prime Timers Point Senior Activity Center includes a large community room with a kitchen, an art studio, a classroom, a computer room for SeniorNet computer training classes, a covered outdoor terrace with shuffleboard courts and a lounge area. Prime Timers Pointe, "Where those in their prime, have the time of their lives," has additional space for billiards and a reading room. The $6.8 million construction project was funded through the 2001 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). A HUD Community Development Block Grant is contributing almost $1.5 million toward construction costs of the Senior Activity Center. Other construction improvements coming this year to George Pierce Park include a new 1.75-mile multi-purpose trail that will circle the new Community Recreation Center and Prime Timers Pointe and existing ball fields, and connect to the existing .6-mile trail. Two outdoor basketball courts are being built, and new parking areas added near the playground and pavilion at the lake and near the existing soccer fields. Parks & Recreation Master Plan Documents |
