Overland Park to turn old Marty Pool site into a new park

The site of the former Marty Pool in northern Overland Park is set to get a new life as a neighborhood park in the next couple of years.

On Wednesday, the Overland Park City Council Community Development Committee voted 5-0 to recommend approval of a contract with landscape architecture firm Confluence to design the new park. Councilmember Sam Passer, who serves as the committee’s vice chair, was absent from the meeting.

Overland Park decommissioned the pool near West 75th and Conser streets in 2022 after decades of offering neighborhood families a place to cool off in the summer.

Mary Pool’s closure was part of a long-term plan laid out in the city’s Parks and Recreation Master Plan to decommission some of the city’s pools over the next couple of decades, (Pg. 36). Overland Park previously closed Roe Pool and converted it into a community park.

Marty Pool is temporarily a firehouse

Right now, a small crew from the Overland Park Fire Department is using the former pool house space as a temporary fire station while Firehouse No. 41 undergoes reconstruction nearby.
Overland Park retrofitted the space to sleep a team of five first responders and built a barn structure to house a fire apparatus.

While Overland Park rebuilds Fire Station #41 near Conser and 75th Street, a temporary crew is working out of the old Marty Pool house. Photo credit Kaylie McLaughlin.

The old Marty Pool house will be demolished

Once the fire department officially moves into the new Firehouse No. 41 building, Overland Park will demolish the old pool house and the other lingering structures.
The city issued a three-year special use permit for the site in 2022.

The new Marty Park should open in 2025

What exactly is planned for the new park is unclear, but it will not have a pool anymore.
The city’s Park Projects Coordinator Mike Burton did say on Wednesday that the new park might have a water feature that nods to the park’s history as a pool.
The Marty Park project is expected to cost roughly $2.7 million, per the Overland Park capital improvement plan list.
The design contract with Confluence will cost $250,000, all to be paid for with federal coronavirus relief money, according to city documents.