Bruin Activity Center remodel underway
Post date: Dec 22, 2016 8:40:50 PM
The remodel of the Bruin Activity Center is underway. Voters approved the August 2016 bond issue, which included a remodel of part of the Bruin Activity Center, which is the indoor practice facility on the campus of Bartlesville High School. This will allow the district to pursue renovations of the historic Phillips Field House which were also part of the successful 2016 bond issue.
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The Bruin Activity Center was initially opened in 2009. Occupying part of the former site of the Crestview Apartments, the facility initially provided 15,625 square feet of turf surface to finally allow for indoor practice for various athletics programs.
In 2011 the building was expanded with an additional bay.
2016-2017 Remodel for Athletic Weight Room & Cheerleading
The historic Phillips Field House was built in 1939 with funding from Frank Phillips as a manual training facility and gym for students at the new College High as well as a home court for his Phillips 66ers corporate basketball team. It needs renovation and repurposing of various areas to adequately serve today's athletics and performing arts programs. Part of the Bruin Activity Center will be used to relocate the athletic weight room and provide a dedicated area for cheerleading, freeing up space in the old field house.
The bay added in 2011 to the Bruin Activity Center is being partitioned off to form an athletics weight room and an area for the cheerleaders to practice in. That will free up space in the 1968 addition to the Phillips Field House which can become a new and improved home for the pom program.
At the December meeting of the Bartlesville Board of Education, architect Dan Keleher indicated the plan was to have the metal wall up dividing the remaining turf area from the remodel area up by the end of Winter Break.
The 2016 bond issue includes renovations at Bartlesville High School to the Phillips Field House, Bruin Activity Center, Custer Stadium, Doornbos Track, tennis courts, and some music areas in the Fine Arts Center.
