PISCATAWAY – The YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge & South Amboy (MEWSA) has been selected to manage and operate the new $32 million Piscataway Community Center on Hoes Lane. 

Targeted for completion by summer, the facility will house an indoor aquatic center with three pools, full-sized basketball court with an overhead running track, fitness center, dance and art studios, youth activity room and community rooms, café and large meeting space. The community center also will have an outdoor pirate-themed spray park with two open flume water slides, two spray cannons, a deck geyser and a large supersplash bucket connected to a ship’s bow surrounded by hose sprayers and arches. Covered, outdoor table seating for families also will be included.

“We have strong confidence in our local YMCA officials to manage what will be the crown jewel of Piscataway,” Mayor Brian C. Wahler said in a statement. “The township council and I look forward to this great partnership to meet the needs of our wonderfully diverse and vibrant community.”