257 – Bradley University Markin Family Student Recreation Center Swimming Pool
According to Bradley University’s website, the Markin Family Student Recreation Center will contain a jogging/walking track, swimming pool, weight training, aerobics and fitness facility, four basketball courts for intramural games, championship basketball court and a juice bar and café.
The Markin Rec Center is named after David Markin, current resident of Kalamazoo, Michigan and 1953 Bradley graduate who donated $1 million to help build Bradley’s David R. Markin Tennis Courts and $8 million towards this project; also from Bradley’s website:
David Markin received his bachelor’s degree in business in 1953. As a student at Bradley, he was captain of the tennis team and a co-founder and president of his fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. Following graduation he joined his family’s business, Checker Motors Co. As its CEO, he expanded the company from a manufacturer of a single product to a major supplier to the automobile industry. On the national tennis scene, Mr. Markin served as president of the United States Tennis Association and piloted the development and building of the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows, New York.
Mr. Markin is the only individual to twice receive Bradley’s President’s Award for leadership, service, and philanthropic support. He is a Bradley Centurion and was the 1999 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award. He served on the Bradley Board of Trustees from 1992 to 2004 and is now an honorary member. The David R. Markin Tennis Courts, dedicated in 1998, were named in honor of his generous support to the University, and ground was broken for the Markin Family Student Recreation Center in the spring of 2007. The Markin Center is projected to be completed in the fall of 2008.
* Inside photos courtesy of an anonymous reader.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I’m going to take a totally wild guess and suggest this is the swimming pool at the Holiday Inn City Centre – just based on the window shadows…
October 5th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
It looks like a high school pool in the area, but I thought i had been in all of them…I’ll go out on a limb and guess the old pool in the old Y building downtown?
October 5th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I’m with Sam… I think it’s the pool from the old YMCA… I hear it’s been redone
October 6th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Central Pool, I believe.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Its not Central, it was my first thought too…the balcony at Central extends the entire length of the building, and theres more deck-space than that….ill wager another guess and say Bradley Pool? I’ve never been in there though
October 6th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Here is a picture of bradleys pool (may be torn down now) from 2 years ago on Peoria Notre Dames swimming site http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6959/784/1600/732263/TT-06.jpg
And central park pool article from when it opened
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1970/ip700345.html
October 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Wow that’s alot of doorways to the pool down the right side. Central’s is like that but it isn’t there. The handicap assist lift in the corner is interesting. I’ve never been to the therapy pool at Methodist Atrium. Could it be?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Found a better picture of central pool on the swimteam website there are a bunch. Not central
http://paww.org/clinics.htm
Is methodists that big?
October 8th, 2008 at 7:28 am
looks to be more of a practice lap pool or a pool at a gym due to the lack of bleachers for audience viewing during swim meets. never been there but what about five points in washington?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Been to five points, they have bleachers, it’s not five points. There are no swimmers that frequent this blog??
October 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
The new Markin Family Rec center at Bradley University
October 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
That’s it. The glass frame shadows on the opposite wall match up. Well done Mike.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Is it really a Peoria Landmark if it isn’t built yet? Love the site but I have a hard enough time identifying the items that have been here for years, now we’re guessing things to come. That’s too hard for dummies like me.