Melbourne Community Centers and Rental Halls

The City of Melbourne lists seven buildings on its community centers and rental facilities page, run through its Parks, Recreation and Golf Department.

Four are neighborhood recreation centers with gyms or classrooms: the Eau Gallie Civic Center at 1551 Highland Avenue, the Wickham Park Community Center at 2815 Leisure Way, the Joseph N. Davis Community Center at 2547 Bruce D. Buggs Street and the Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr. Community Center at 3316 Monroe Street. The Crane Community Center at 1440 Mosswood Drive is a smaller hall used for camps, classes and parties.

The remaining two are event venues. The Front Street Civic Center at 2205 Front Street sits on the Indian River, and the Melbourne Auditorium at 625 E. Hibiscus Blvd. is the city's largest hall. Together the seven buildings range from a 3,700-square-foot room at Crane to more than 20,000 square feet at the Auditorium, and city capacity filters on the directory run from 100 to 230 guests up to 600 to 700.

The Eau Gallie Civic Center office, which also takes calls for the Crane center, is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 321-608-7400, according to the city's Eau Gallie and Crane pages.

The Eau Gallie Civic Center at 1551 Highland Avenue has two reception rooms totaling up to 8,000 square feet and a 6,800 square foot gymnasium, according to the city.

The City of Melbourne describes it as a multi-use facility with two reception rooms up to 8,000 square feet with a divider, a food-warming kitchen and a gymnasium, available for rentals of up to 600 or 700 people auditorium style. The rooms break down as a 2,200-square-foot small room and a 5,800-square-foot large room, while the gymnasium measures 6,800 square feet. Renting both rooms for a full Friday to Sunday day costs $925 for residents and $1,110 for non-residents, with a $300 refundable damage deposit.

Weekly activity at Eau Gallie as listed in October 2026 includes Aikido on Monday and Thursday evenings for ages 13 and older at $45 a month for residents, Tuesday line dancing at $5 a class, Yoga Fit, Zumba and a Wednesday bingo with the Melbourne Police Athletic League for ages 18 and older. Bone Builders, a free strength training program offered through Aging Matters in Brevard's Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, meets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Open gym basketball and indoor pickleball run on a posted monthly calendar.

The Davis and Taylor centers in the 32901 ZIP code serve as Melbourne neighborhood gyms and gathering halls, with Davis running daily open gym and Taylor renting for $275 a full day.

The Joseph N. Davis Community Center on Bruce D. Buggs Street is listed as a multi-use facility with a reception room, full kitchen and gymnasium. Its schedule includes open gym basketball Monday through Sunday at $1 for ages 17 and under and $2 for adults, Kids Late Night Basketball on Fridays from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. for ages 8 to 17 at $1, adult full court basketball at midday on Mondays and Tuesdays, coed volleyball on Thursday evenings, open gym pickleball on weekday mornings, and Seniors at Lunch with Aging Matters in Brevard on weekdays. As of October 18, 2026, the city states that rentals there are not available because of space and scheduling constraints.

The west wing of the Melbourne building spent more than a year in repair. A September 9, 2026 city notice says the roof partially collapsed during a severe thunderstorm in July 2025, that the gym reopened in August 2025, and that the west wing, which needed more extensive renovation, would reopen on Saturday, September 12, 2026. A September 17, 2026 notice confirms the west wing is open, with a renovated game room, new pool and game tables, computers, TVs and lounge furniture.

The Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr. Community Center on Monroe Street is a multi-use facility with a full kitchen, a large playground and seating for 125 to 150 people. It rents for $275 a full day for residents and $330 for non-residents, or $35 an hour for residents with a three-hour minimum, plus a $45 alcohol fee and a $100 refundable security deposit. Its office hours run to 7 p.m. on weekdays, with Saturday afternoon hours, and its activities listing still says activities will resume after the end of Summer Camp.

Wickham Park Community Center is Melbourne's largest neighborhood center at 18,000 square feet, while Crane Community Center is its smallest at 3,700, according to the city.

The Wickham Park Community Center on Leisure Way is an 18,000-square-foot building with a full-size gymnasium and small, medium and large rooms. Its busiest fixture is an adult basketball league on Wednesday evenings, which runs from August 19 to November 4, 2026, as a 10-week regular season plus two weeks of playoffs, at $400 per team. The Melbourne center also hosts baton and dance classes, youth basketball skills sessions, dog obedience and scent work classes, karate, toddler open gym and an Out of School Day Camp on school breaks at $25 per day, with a Breakfast with Santa set for December 5, 2026. Rooms rent by the hour, from $20 for the 410-square-foot small room to $75 for the 10,000-square-foot gymnasium, each with a three-hour minimum.

The Crane Community Center at 1440 Mosswood Drive is the smallest of the Melbourne centers: a 3,700-square-foot multi-use room with a small warming kitchen, a large playground and parking. The city records that it was built for local teens in 1966 and was known as Teen Town, a place for dances and other recreation. Today it is used for classes, camp programs and private parties, rents for $275 a full day for residents and $330 for non-residents with a $300 deposit, and hosts the Space Coast Wood Carvers on Wednesday mornings.

The Front Street Civic Center on the Indian River and the 20,632 square foot Melbourne Auditorium are the city's two event halls, both booked through the Auditorium office at 321-608-7420.

For receptions on the water, the city points to the Front Street Civic Center, located on the Indian River at 2205 Front Street. It has 3,413 square feet of usable space with a room divider and warming kitchen and seats up to 230. The large room alone (2,074 square feet) costs $600 for a full day for residents and $720 for non-residents, both rooms together cost $800 and $960, and every booking carries a $550 refundable damage deposit. A gazebo on the grounds can also be rented, and outdoor gatherings require an assembly permit. Bookings are handled by the Melbourne Auditorium office, and deposits may be picked up after 9 a.m. on the first working day after the event.

The Melbourne Auditorium on Hibiscus Boulevard is the city's expo and trade show hall. The whole building covers 20,632 square feet: a main hall of 8,960 square feet, an East Wing of 3,584, a West Wing of 4,368, a 2,340-square-foot stage and a 1,380-square-foot lobby with a box office. It rents for $200 an hour with a seven-hour minimum plus a tidy fee and a $500 deposit, seven days a week. The city also runs its own family events there, including a Halloween Spooktacular Indoor Trick or Treat on October 24, 2026, a Holiday Market on November 20 and 21, 2026, and Touch a Truck on January 23, 2027.

Melbourne sells open gym access by location or, with the annual Super Pass, across the Eau Gallie, Wickham Park and Davis gyms.

On the Eau Gallie and Davis pages, a one-location annual pass for open gym costs $35 for residents aged 18 and older and $19 for ages 17 and under, while the annual Super Pass, which covers the Eau Gallie Civic Center, Wickham Park Community Center and Joseph N. Davis Community Center for one year from purchase, costs $60 for adult residents and $35 for youth residents. Indoor pickleball has its own passes at the same three Melbourne gyms, $65 for one location and $90 for the Super Pass for residents. The Wickham Park page lists the open gym annual pass at $23 and $42 and the Super Pass at $42 and $72 without separate resident prices, the same figures the other two pages give for non-residents, so the city pages do not match on resident pricing there.

Rental rules are shared across the Melbourne system. Contracts and payment must be completed 14 days before a private event and 30 days before a public one, and refundable damage deposits are required in advance. For classes, athletic fees, summer camp and swim lessons, a refund request must reach the recreation office at the community center at least seven days before the program starts, while memberships, passes and daily fees are not refundable. The administrative charge on a refund is listed as $10 per class on the Eau Gallie page and $5 on the Davis and Taylor pages.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, against the City of Melbourne pages for all seven community centers and halls and the city's September 2026 notices on the Joseph N. Davis west wing.