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Ribbon Cut On New Navy Federal Recreation Center
November 8, 2023
Navy Federal Credit Union celebrated the completion of its most recent addition with a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday The Navy Federal Recreation Center, which is located on the west side of Navy Federal’s Beulah Campus along Nine Mile Road, will be ready for team members and the community to enjoy on Monday, November 13th.
“It is an honor to have this opportunity to give back to the community at large, and we are thankful for the partners and local leaders who helped us make this happen, many of whom have been invited to join us for the ribbon cutting,” said Kara Cardona, executive vice president of Navy Federal’s Greater Pensacola Operations. “To provide an outdoor area for our employees and the community to exercise, go for a walk, or find a place to reflect during the day, gives me great joy. The opening of the Recreation Center is the perfect way to commemorate our 20 years as Greater Pensacola Operations. We started with 30 employees and have grown to nearly 10,000.
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The Navy Federal Recreation Center offers a variety of ways for people to enjoy the outdoors. The facility features walking trails, recreation fields, a basketball court, a volleyball court, pickleball courts, yoga space, a pavilion, and open spaces.
Navy Federal purchased the property in 2019 with a focus on facilitating quality-of-life improvements, amenities, and job growth. Navy Federal committed to the creation of 300 new jobs (fulfilled in 2021) and also agreed to provide public access to the recreation area.
“We can’t wait to see our employees and community members using our Recreation Center,” said Chelsea Scott, recreation center manager at Navy Federal. “Our walking trails and open spaces will be available for use during the park’s operating hours of 6 am to 9 pm daily. The public will have the ability to reserve specific amenities during the evenings and weekends in the coming weeks.”
A Recreation Center website where members of the community will be able to reserve areas of the Recreation Center will be available to the public in early December. Reservable areas will include the pavilion, multipurpose field, basketball court, volleyball court, pickleball courts, and a variety of lawns.
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4 Responses to “Ribbon Cut On New Navy Federal Recreation Center”
Being an employee, of Navy Federal, I was able to attend the event today at the new Recreation Center. The facility is amazing!!! Be assured that when Navy Federal does anything it is going to be first class. I am so proud to be a part of such a wonderful organization that truly cares about it’s members, employees and the community. Thank you, Navy Federal, for this facility and for all of the other things that you do for the community. Congratulation on 20 years! I look forward to seeing more of the wonderful things this company will do.
I’m so excited for this. Thank you for adding something special to the community. I would love to use the pavilion for some plant workshops in the future!
Navy Federal seems to be a good match for Pensacola. This recreation proj=ect seems to be a good fit for the community, but I, for one, have bad memories of how the LBC 4-H Camp was taken from the 4-H community at only a small piece of the pie of monies spent developing that area.
It took an awful lot of hard energy by those of us Escambia 4-H supporters to even connivence those that took over the monies from the sale of the property, Florida Extension ,Gainsville to finally connivence them to build a new facility. It doesn’t have the lake, the cabins or other amenities that LBC had and Gainsville took control of the 3.6 million in revenues for other uses. 3.6 mil was only a drop in the bucket for what was spent on OLF-8. Escambia 4-H lost out big time for these NFCU amenities. NFCU owes Escambia 4-H for their success and should make amends!
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I see an unmentioned baseball diamond. This place must be huge. How nice! Thank you NFCU. You are still the best.