Main building at city pool gets face-lift
The City of Warren Municipal Pool received a much-needed facelift over the winter.
The main building, Director of Public Works Mike Holtz said, saw the majority of the refurbish.
“The major kickstart was the restrooms,” said Holtz. “They were really antiquated.”
A wall was added along the back of the restrooms, blocking off the rest of the building, something Holtz said was not the case before. New paint, flooring, lighting and plumbing rounded out those renovations, with drinking fountains, new lighting and new outdoor showers added outside the main doorway.
The lifeguards also have a new space. Holtz said the old doorway was bricked up and a window added, with the new door and two new windows placed closer to Pool Street.
“It’ll be a nice area for them,” said Holtz. “They’ll have their own restroom and we’re adding lockers, too.”
It is also the entrance for the pump room-which has a new coat of paint and ladder downstairs-and the new first aid station.
“We’ve really done a lot of work the last six or seven years,” said Holtz, mentioning painting the pool and a new boiler in particular.
The work, which started after Labor Day and resumed three weeks ago after taking a break in December due to weather, is now about 95 percent finished, Holtz said.
The renovations totaled about $300,000 with funding coming from a state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant, the city’s general fund, the Community Foundation and the DeFrees Foundation.
“A lot of people helped share the cost of this,” said Holtz.
Holtz said REMCO Construction, Dasco Plumbing and Pure Tech Inc. were the contractors on the renovations.
The pool is scheduled to open on June 13.
Applications for season passes are available now.






