Hutchins Street Square

The facilities are amazing. The place is top notch. However, it is not a true community center. If you can not rent space and offer classes if they don’t see a need for your class. The «gate keeper» for renting space to offer classes makes her decision immediately without research, without consultation with others, in her opinion if your course offering is not a fit for the center and the community they will not let you rent space and offer it! She offers no expertise or facts to back up her decision. She takes all of about two seconds to say no, very rudely and intimidating. I understand they don’t want people offering course on strange or inappropriate things. However, when a reasonable course is put forth there should be a better process for consideration. The revenue loss is on the applicant not on the facility. The «community» center should be more about community and not about personal agendas.

I was told about the Hutchens Street pool by a friend. I have some disabilities and was needing a warm water pool to be able to walk in and do some exercise in. I went to see if the pool would work. I was so very happy to meet with Kim the pool coordinator and she gave me the pool schedule and told me to come from 9:30 — 10:30 am would be the perfect time for me to use the pool.
I bought my ticket, $ 40.00. Went and purchased a swim suit and started my first visit to the pool. It was wonderful, the water was perfect, it felt so good to be out of pain for thae time in the water.
Then the hammer came down. My second visit I was ask to leave the pool after only being in there for 20 minutes. Then the young lady told me it would always be that way because she had another jib to go to. I told her I was driving from Galt to come ther and to only be allowed that short time in the pool would not work.
Long story shirt, I requested my money back and was refused. I contacted the person over the coordinator, he assured me that this was wrong and I would not have that problem again. I went the next day and was ask to get out of the pool at 10:00 am. I had only been in there 15 minutes.
Again, I ask for a refund. They denied they were asking me to leave, they would not give me a time I could come, and they would not refund my momey.
I was so very dissapointed that this happened. I needed to be there for health purposes and I cant tell you how happy I was to find the pool and how much of a dissapointment it was to not be able to use it.
They advertize the pool to be open from 9:30 — 10:30 am for Seniors/​disabled, but do not believe this. They will ask you to leave. Even Mike, the supervisor will not abide by their schedule and will not refund your momey.
So very sad because they have a beautiful pool that could so benifit those who are disababled and need the warm water pool.
I had told my doctor about it so he could tell others, but had to tell him after these incidencese not to refer others as they really dont want you to come.
The coordinator had stated she didnt want to advertize the pool because she felt she already spent her life ther and the supervisor said its because they are understaffed. Who know… not be… but so very dissapointed and also ripped off.

Terrible customer service, nice venue. Made us feel very unwelcomed. But the performance was great Hapa. Not sure how to rate them for the venue or the service? Only because the venue is nice. Get people that are actually friendly working here and are happy to help others.

Went with my mom to see Les Miserables. Sound quality was great & the seats were comfy. My only small point of contention was the ease of viewing. We sat relatively close to the stage, so the speakers’ placement directly on the stage occasionally got in my line of vision.
Overall, I was really impressed with this venue. Not to mention that it brought back a lot of great memories since my then-​boyfriend & current hubby took me to my senior prom here! :)

Saw Les Miserables tonight. WOW! Such talent and quality here! I will be purchasing another ticket to go again this week

We had our wedding reception in the Kirst Hall at Hutchins Street Square. Pre-​event communication was great between staff and us. We fully communicated with the staff everything that we were going to do at the reception. We did a potluck, a smore’s fire pit, and we were going to use the in house sound system to play a MP3 list for the music for the reception, this was all laid out in advance with the staff. During the reception the sound system went out about ½ way through the program. The staff were not able to fix it and did not tell our site coordinator that it wasn’t going to be fixed till a hour later. Luckily we had a guest that lived across the street that was able to bring a home entertainment center over for the rest of the night.
Five days later I stopped in to check on our deposit but also if they were going to do anything about the sound system that we out. The manager didn’t even know anything about it and said she would look into it and get back to us. Three days later I called because I didn’t hear anything, the manager said she talked to her supervisor and that there is nothing they can do about it. They made a decision about it before even hearing our side of the story. So my wife called them and explained the whole thing to the supervisor, who then said that she would have to think about it. Several days later we again had to call them to follow up, in which the supervisor said that the contract didn’t say anything about them providing the sound (even though we have emails back and forth that say that) and that we should almost be billed for the damage to the sound system. If you book here get everything in writing or if anything goes wrong they will stick it to you.

I recently saw the musical Menopause at the Charlene Lange theater and I was impressed that such a beautiful theater lies right in the heart of Lodi. The theater was spacious, the seats were comfy, and the décor made the building feel comfortable.
The grounds of Hutchins Street Square are so nicely kept and the building itself is beautiful. I have attended numerous events at HSS and I am always impressed with the facility itself. Parking is not an issue as there is a large lot and many parking spaces surrounding the building.
Overall, a great place to hold an event or attend a show in the theater.

A great place for a wedding. The quad is bigger enough for cocktail hour and appetizers. The hall have white curtains, round tables and nice chairs. Attended a friend’s wedding and was awed! can’t wait to come back for another wedding!

As the only public indoor swimming pool in the Stockton/​Lodi area, this one is not bad.
It is 25 yards long, gently heated, and there is always a lifeguard on duty. There is good parking, handicap access into the water, and it is open year round. Daily/​evening availability is good. Lap swim and aquatic exercise are the main offerings. Also, the facility is generally clean.
Since it is not a health club, do not expect extras like towel service or a sauna. However, the entrance fee is reasonable, and unlike a club, there is no long term commitment.

The fact that Hutchins Street Square was Lodi’s first High School in 1913 is pretty cool. They still have a swimming pool from what used to be the school gym on the second floor. We DJ’d there at Kirst Hall back in August from the second floor balcony looking down on the dance floor so we got to see the pool LOL. Very nice hall though, we’re looking forward to DJing there again someday in the near future!