Reimagine the Future of Our Community is a $3 million capital campaign to help ensure Five Points Washington can continue serving our community for the next 20 years and beyond.

The campaign will support important improvements to our aquatics facilities, Caterpillar Performing Arts Center, and community spaces. But this is about much more than improving a building. It is about protecting the programs, experiences, and connections that happen here every day.

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Five Points is more than a fitness center, pool, theater, or event venue. It is a place where children learn to swim, older adults stay active and connected, students discover the performing arts, families celebrate milestones, and community organizations come together.

With more than 600,000 visits each year, Five Points serves people at nearly every age and stage of life. Investing in our facility means investing in the people who depend on these spaces for health, confidence, creativity, connection, and belonging.

Five Points is approaching its 20th anniversary. After nearly two decades of extensive daily use, several areas of our facility require significant investment.

Rather than waiting for these needs to become more urgent, we are planning responsibly for the future. This campaign will allow us to reinvest in the spaces that make our programs and services possible while preparing Five Points to meet the changing needs of our community for the next 20 years.

Campaign investments will focus on three important areas of Five Points:

Aquatics: Maintaining safe, accessible, and dependable aquatic facilities that support swim lessons, therapy and wellness programs, competitive swimming, recreation, and water safety.

Performing Arts: Improving the Caterpillar Performing Arts Center so it can continue serving students, schools, community performers, nonprofit organizations, touring artists, and audiences.

Community Spaces: Strengthening the spaces used for educational programs, community events, celebrations, nonprofit activities, and opportunities that bring people together.

These improvements will help Five Points remain accessible, welcoming, and responsive to people of all ages and abilities.

Every gift helps protect opportunities that directly impact people in our community.

Your support can help a child gain confidence while learning lifesaving water-safety skills. It can help an older adult remain active and independent. It can give a student a place to step onto a stage and discover a new talent. It can provide families, schools, nonprofits, and community organizations with a welcoming place to gather.

The building makes these opportunities possible, but people are the reason for this campaign.

Five Points' impact extends far beyond our members.

Local students swim, practice, compete, and perform here. Schools, nonprofits, businesses, and civic organizations use Five Points for programs and events. Families attend performances and celebrations, while people of all ages participate in wellness, recreation, and community programs.

Even if you do not personally use Five Points, there is a good chance someone you know does.

Our goal is to raise $3 million to support improvements that will help Five Points continue serving our community for generations to come.

The campaign began its quiet phase in September 2025, and more than $1.8 million in gifts and pledges has already been raised toward that goal.

Membership fees help support the day-to-day operation of Five Points, including staffing, programs, utilities, and routine maintenance.

Major, long-term facility improvements require resources beyond normal operating revenue. The capital campaign provides the additional funding needed to make these significant investments while allowing Five Points to continue providing programs and services to the community.