Continuing our long history of collaboration with the Covina Community Development leadership, GGA is undertaking an adaptive re-use renovation of the City’s historic Vita Pakt orange warehouses into a community recreation village. Located along the railroad tracks and adjacent to the Metrolink train station, the long linear site celebrates the City’s history of industry and transportation while providing much-needed community space for active social connection After close study of the mid-century fruit packing warehouses, the design team developed a renovation program which addressed the critical needs of seismic strengthening, systems upgrades, and accessibility improvements needed to align with the new program spaces and project budget.
The final interior program spaces call for a new gymnasium complex in the eastern warehouse and community learning and services spaces in the west warehouse. We leveraged the large exterior spaces in-between and around to provide space for rock climbing walls, a dog park for community and police canine training, a memorial City history walk, and native planting gardens The new recreation village will serve further to reinforce the City’s larger program of community and economic revitalization of the areas extending out from their historic downtown core and create a regional asset to the larger San Gabriel Valley.
