$32 Million community center brings pool, recording studio, cafe to Tacoma’s East Side

Tacoma’s new Eastside Community Center is so much more than a gym.

There’s the cafe, feet from the front door. The recording studio is down the hallway. And a slide whisks visitors to the lower level, where they find a pool with amenities that rival water parks.

Those features and more transfixed and thrilled visitors to Metro Parks Tacoma’s $32.7 million center on Portland Avenue and East 56th Street when it opened Saturday.

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