Louisville, KY · 2025
Camp Taylor Memorial Park Pool
$6.2M ARPA-funded aquatic facility — new construction
Camp Taylor Memorial Park Pool replaced an aging facility in a Louisville neighborhood that had gone without a public pool for years. The project delivered a full aquatic complex — zero-depth entry ramp, competition lap lanes, a waterslide, and shaded seating — funded through ARPA community investment dollars.
As Site Superintendent, I managed daily field operations for W Principles, LLC from groundbreaking through punch list. The project ran groundbreaking to punch list in a single construction season — concrete, mechanical, pool systems, and site improvements sequenced with no slack.
What it took
Concrete doesn't wait for daylight.
The pool shell pour ran through the night to meet structural specs and city permit windows. Coordinating crew shifts, ready-mix trucks, and pump placement in the dark meant building the schedule backward from the pour — every trade sequenced to that fixed point.
Resolution — Pre-poured schedule distributed 72 hours ahead. On-site foreman rotation with defined break intervals. Zero re-pours.
Public funding means every dollar is on record.
ARPA-funded projects carry daily reporting and compliance requirements that go beyond standard commercial work. Owner, city, and federal paperwork ran in parallel throughout the project.
Resolution — Built ForemanOS, a daily documentation system — photos tagged, narrated, and compiled into owner-ready PDFs each morning.
Six trades, one deck, no second chances.
Pool decks compress MEP, plumbing, and structural details into a single elevation. Conduit runs, drain inverts, slide anchors — all locked in concrete the moment the pour started.
Resolution — Three coordination meetings per week, full RFI log, embedded verification checklist before every pour.
Before & After
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Site Photography
All photos by Miles Goodman · © 2024–2025
Outcome
The facility opened in summer 2025 to significant community response — covered by WAVE 3, WHAS 11, and WDRB. For a neighborhood that had lacked a public pool for years, it was a real return on public investment. For our team, it proved that a compressed schedule and ARPA compliance don't have to be in conflict — if the documentation keeps up.