The Woodlands Hills is a Howard Hughes Corporation and the Woodlands’ Development Company’s newest master-planned community, located in Conroe and Willis, Texas. The Woodlands Hills is a 2,000-acre, forested master-planned community, featuring 112 acres of open space, 20 neighborhood parks, a 17-acre Village Park, and an Activity Center with event space and fitness facility. The […]
Parkland Village is the second of four villages within Bridgeland, a master-planned community located outside of Houston. Developed by The Howard Hughes Corporation, the community encompasses over 3,100 home sites on 1,200 acres, as well as 350 acres of parks, lakes, and trails. Parkland Village Park is the central park space for Parkland and provides […]
Photos courtesy of Crafton-Tull In 2016, Counsilman-Hunsaker and Crafton Tull developed an Operational Business Plan for a new aquatic center. The goal of the operational study was to develop an expense budget, identify revenue opportunities, and provide knowledge and insight on aquatic operations to recapture operating expenses. The grand opening of the city’s first public […]
Planning for a new high school in Ames, IA, began in 2017 after the district performed a study to assess the current high school and its facilities. The district decided to move forward with the plans and hired Story Construction as the construction manager for the project. It selected OPN Architects to design the new […]
In May 2019, the University of Michigan celebrated the grand opening of their new $14.8 million Football Performance Center located inside Schembechler Hall. The project included the renovation of approximately 24,000 sq. ft. inside Schembechler Hall while constructing an additional 8,000 sq. ft. for athletic medicine, wellness, nutrition, rehabilitation, and training for the football program. […]
The existing pool at Hempstead High School was nearly 50 years old and leaking around 4,000 gallons of water each week. The pool eventually had to be closed because the soil conditions under the pool were saturated with water, it didn’t meet competition standards, and the facility wasn’t “user friendly”. The school district chose to […]
In the fall of 2018, Anoka County retained Counsilman-Hunsaker based on breadth of aquatic experience to undertake a plan to renovate or replace the wave pool at Bunker Beach Water Park as well as perform a facility-wide infrastructure assessment. Counsilman-Hunsaker provided various options and budgets for different wave pool layouts and configurations that included replacing […]
The Coronado Aquatic Center opened in 2006 and includes an outdoor 13,000-square-foot competition pool, a 4,000-square-foot leisure and instructional pool. Counsilman-Hunsaker was retained by the city to conduct an operational study of the aquatic center. The study identified areas and opportunities where the aquatic center can achieve financially stable operations, increase pool usage, and decrease […]
As a rapidly expanding city, the demand for aquatic facilities has increased exponentially along with the continued population growth within the Houston city limits. The city not only provides citizens with the access to public pools, but also venues for the Houston Parks and Recreation Department to teach Water Fitness and Learn to Swim […]
The Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Brooklyn, Ltd. (FIAO) is a not-for-profit charitable community service organization. FIAO was created in 1977 by a group of community leaders who volunteered to work with youths in a recreational environment to serve as a positive influence. Services are provided by professionally trained counselors who bring youths into established […]
