$5.8M contract approved for Western Loudoun Rec Center oversight

At the April 15 Board of Supervisors Business Meeting, the Board voted to award a $5,797,492.33 contract to Hill International, Inc. for third-party construction support services for the Western Loudoun Recreation Complex. Due to the scale of the project, external oversight was deemed necessary to ensure successful execution.

The 142-acre complex will be located at 36715 Main Street in Purcellville, just west of the Town of Purcellville. Initially envisioned as an 83,000-square-foot facility, the design has been expanded to 96,000 square feet to accommodate additional recreational programming, including a designated teen area.

The recreation center will feature a gymnasium, kitchen, fitness center, indoor running track, aquatics center with both a competition and leisure pool, spectator seating, wet classrooms, splash play area, multipurpose classrooms, and more.

The park will also offer a wide range of athletic facilities, including four diamond fields and six rectangular fields. Some of these fields may feature synthetic turf and will be equipped with athletic lighting, restrooms, concession facilities, picnic pavilions, and designated areas for scorekeepers and umpires.

According to the FY25 Adopted Budget, the site will also be designed to accommodate the future Purcellville Library Replacement, which will be named the Western Loudoun Library.

Said Supervisor Juli Briskman (D-Algonkian), “We have decided we will be putting teen centers in our recreation centers moving forward. So this will be our first time that we are actually putting a teen center in the recreational center, which we think is more symbiotic, for lack of a better word, than what we have been doing.”

Regarding the recreation center, Supervisor Caleb Kershner (R-Catoctin) said, “It’s a big thing I’ve been advocating for. It’s going to increase the fields. We all know we have a deficit in fields.”