Logs and computers seem an odd coupling, but the log-constructed White Center Park Fieldhouse is now a wireless computer access facility.

Wireless-equipped laptops can get access to the Internet anywhere within all 12 acres of White Center Park. Donated by MSN, the free service also works with personal digital assistants (PDAs).

White Center Park is the third county park to go wireless, joining the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Park and Marymoor Park.

King County Executive Ron Sims and County Council member Dow Constantine held a joint news conference at White Center Park last week to tell of other projects King County is sponsoring in White Center.

Plans for a new community center were announced too. The new facility is proposed for the northeast corner of Lakewood Park, near Southwest 108th Street and Sixth Avenue Southwest, said Sarah Jepson, an executive fellow in Sims' office.

King County will work on the project with the Technology Access Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that helps minority students learn how to use computer technology to build confidence and succeed in school. The proposal is for the county to lease land for the new center to the Technology Access Foundation and provide a $2 million grant.

The foundation would help raise approximately $8 million more to build the center. Then the foundation would occupy a third of the building while the rest of the community center would be used for after-school programs, summer camp and other activities for White Center students.

A group called Public Architecture, which promotes recycling of construction materials, is working with the Technology Access Foundation to salvage building materials from the demolition of Park Lake Homes. Some of those materials could be used to help build the new community center.

The King County Council is scheduled to consider the Lakewood Park Community Center proposal in December, Jepson said. If fund-raising efforts are successful, construction could begin in spring 2007.

The elected officials also pointed to other King County programs going on in White Center, including zoning changes for underdeveloped properties in the business district. Zoning designations have been changed on the east side of 15th Avenue Southwest, between Southwest 98th and 100th streets. Mixed-use development with housing and retail spaces is allowed there now.

Several months ago, King County instituted a business fa