The Salvation Army Kroc Center in College Area is a 132,000-square-foot community center on a 12.4-acre campus at 6753 University Avenue in San Diego's 92115 ZIP. A $90 million combined capital and endowment grant from the late Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, funded the construction of this first-of-its-kind Salvation Army community center in the Rolando section of east San Diego. The fitness wing houses a wellness center with cardio and strength equipment split evenly across the floor, and an NCAA regulation-size gymnasium hosts basketball, indoor soccer, volleyball, pickleball, and group exercise classes. Three pools comprise the aquatic center, serving programs that range from infant swim lessons to lap swimming and water aerobics, and a rock-climbing wall adds a vertical training element to the recreation lineup. Youth arts programming includes partnerships with organizations such as transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project in College Area, which channels dance performance and creative expression workshops through the center's performing arts facilities. An NHL regulation-size ice rink runs hockey leagues and figure-skating sessions year-round, making the facility one of the few ice venues in eastern San Diego County. The 540-seat Joan B. Kroc Theatre features a motorized orchestra pit, fly-rail rigging, a scene shop, dressing rooms, and green rooms, hosting concerts, ballet performances, comedy shows, and Kroc Junior Theatre youth productions. A performing arts center offers instruction in dance, gymnastics, piano, and guitar, and a Head Start preschool operates on campus for families in the surrounding 92115 ZIP. The campus connects to climbing and fitness programming at facilities such as Grotto Climbing & Yoga in Grantville, which shares a recreational user base drawn from the same east San Diego corridor. University Avenue places the Kroc Center within the SDSU-adjacent residential zone, and after Mrs. Kroc's passing in 2003, her $1.5 billion bequest to The Salvation Army funded 26 similar Kroc Centers nationwide, all modeled on this San Diego original.