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  4. Family Lifestyle Center under development in Jacksonville, Florida. (Click here for more)

  5. Major Spray 'n' Play Addition opens at Davis' Farmland. (Click here for more)

  6. Family Lifestyle Center Under Development. (Click here for more)

  7. Paradise Park, the world's first combination family entertainment and children's edutainment center, opens at a cost of $7.0 million in Lee's Summit, Missouri. (Click here for more)

  8. LouLou Al Dugong’s Earns Golden Token Award for Best Brochure. (Click here for more)

  9. Sana'a Yemen Trade Center to Feature Yemen's 1st Family Entertainment Center (Click here for more)

  10. White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group's Bamboola children's edutainment center has been cited as an example of designing for the "experience economy" in the new book THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY: Work Is Theatre & Every Business A Stage (Click here for more)

  11. WHLLG Designs US Navy's 1st Family Entertainment Center & Recreation Mall (Click here for more)

  12. Former employee designs playgrounds in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Click here for more)

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  2. White Hutchinson Designs Easter Seals Child Care Play Gardens (Click here for more)

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White Hutchinson Designs Easter Seals Child Care Play Gardens

The new Easter Seals Arizona Child Care Center will be located in heart of downtown Phoenix in the ground level of an existing parking garage. It will serve 140 children from toddlers to 5 year-olds. White Hutchinson was selected to design all the outdoor play areas.

The preschool play garden will include a running maze, hiding bush, children's gardening, art area, riding track in a bamboo forest, sand play and a play structure. The toddler playground area will include a running berm, water tables, riding corral and art area. There will also be an outdoor dramatic play area, a construction area and a zero-depth water playground area.

Vicki Stoecklin, WHLLG's Education and Child Development Director who overseas the design of child care projects, said the project presented many unusual design challenges:

  • Some of the areas will be under parking decks, presenting lighting and acoustic challenges, which needed to be addressed in the design.
  • The program will have a high percentage of children with a wide range of disabilities, requiring highly accessible design solutions for not only equipment, but also loose parts-more than required by ADA. ADA design standards often fail to address special needs of children with impaired motor skills, such as ones who use walkers rather than wheelchairs. They also do not address selection of loose parts and manipulatives.
  • To make the play areas usable in the hot Phoenix climate requires that the outdoor areas have plentiful shade, air circulation and even mist cooling.

The Center is scheduled for a fall 2001 opening.