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Changes at Chester Bowl
5/6/2026 | 1m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Big changes are happening at Chester Bowl! The 1974 chalet will be torn down...
Big changes are happening at Chester Bowl! The 1974 chalet will be torn down to make room for the new Chalet.
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Changes at Chester Bowl
5/6/2026 | 1m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Big changes are happening at Chester Bowl! The 1974 chalet will be torn down to make room for the new Chalet.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThe Tom Storm Chalet was built in 1974, so it's a little bit over 50 years old.
Unfortunately, it is, a near the end of its life style.
It's not that old of a building, but it just has gotten to a poin where it needs to be replaced.
So as we go through the building, it has been emptied out so it looks a little bare.
This is half of the mural that was painted in 1981.
In honor of all the 1980 Olympian that were part of Chester Bowl.
Between ski jumping and even as you can see, speed skating because there used to be a speed skating oval here in Chester Park.
One of the challenges we have had with this buildin is these stairs are the only way up to the main space in Cheste Bowl, so we will head up them.
But we know that not every user can.
This is the existing main space in the chalet, where people gather to drink their hot chocolate to hang out, warm up, or for summer campers to come in during a thunderstorm.
In the new building this space will be about doubled in size, letting us serve more people.
So the space behind this doo is where the apartment was until about three and a half years ago.
And then it has been staff space for us.
We call it the secret lair.
this space was where the apartment was.
There's a bathroom, there's a kitchen area two bedrooms that were up here.
So one of the secrets of the chale is that there's a loft up here that you access through one of these old pull down ladders.
So the footprint of this space will be mostly expanded room for folks to gather.
We are going to have a meeting room.
That'll be the foundation does go out this way about the footprint of the existing deck.
then what was then originally was a concession stand, then turned into an office.
Will again become a concession stand in this area.
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