The Bottom Line
The development of a new Hoyt Park outdoor, medium-sized family pool will benefit both residents of Milwaukee County, as well as Wauwatosa. A new pool at Hoyt Park will provide:
- A family pool atmosphere with a mission to serve entire community
- Increased patronization of local businesses
- A financially self-sustaining endeavor
- Support for health and wellness of the entire community
The development of a new Hoyt Park outdoor medium-sized family pool is a win-win proposition for everyone in Milwaukee County and Wauwatosa
- Family pool atmosphere with a mission to serve entire community
- Encourages patronization of local businesses
- Financially self-sustaining
- Supports health and wellness of community
Most importantly, a new pool will provide a safe and secure summer recreational venue for our children and youth: It’s the way summer should be!
What are the issues?
As the result of severe budgetary restrictions for the Milwaukee County parks system, the pool at Hoyt Park has been closed for five seasons. The pool required repairs that the county budget could not allow. A grassroots organization, FOHPP, assumed the task of raising money privately to build and operate the new medium-sized pool that would meet the needs of the community. FOHPP is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization.
Benefits of a New Pool for Residents
A new outdoor medium-sized family pool significantly improves the summer quality of life, makes memories, and serves as a focal point for family recreation in the community.
Bringing back Hoyt’s pool tradition would also reinstate Hoyt’s historical, significant contribution to the unique ribbon of parks that runs along the Menomonee River through the heart of Wauwatosa. This would create a contiguous “central park” corridor (Jacobus, Hart, Hoyt, Hansen, the developing Hartung Quarry Park) serving a distinct community purpose.
Resident Benefits include:- Family friendly facility that is also welcoming to adult users
- 1100-person capacity
- Zero-depth entry and heated water
- Lap lanes, diving well, and a water slide
- Interactive water play equipment and small slide for the younger swimmers
- Both shade and sun areas with giant “funbrellas” and lounge chairs
- Large wet-sand play area with elaborate sand-play equipment
- Sand volleyball court
- Concessions, dining, and picnic tables
- Unobstructed lines of vision within the confines of the pool, sand area, and concessions
- Convenient bar-coded fobs for season pass holders
- An offering of a “family season pass” making frequent usage extremely cost-effective
Benefits of a New Pool for Businesses
Wauwatosa businesses will gain business as the result of a new pool at Hoyt Park. Instead of pushing customers to other communities with modern pool facilities, businesses near the pool will benefit from:
- Recreational and household budget dollars staying put in Milwaukee County and Wauwatosa.
- Parents running errands to businesses along North Avenue, Mayfair Mall, Mayfair Road and Wauwatosa Village on their way to and from the pool with their children.
- Concessions and the coffee house in the old bath house will be an opportunity for a restaurateur.
Taxpayer Benefits
- Pool operations will be required to be financially self-sustaining
- A vibrant recreational facility enhances the desirability of our community as a place to live, preserving property values and tax base