Center to be Built for Active Seniors at W.P. Jones Park
New senior citizens center at W.P. Jones Park in Duluth to be completed in June, open in August.
Active adult senior citizens will soon have their own center in Duluth. Construction is scheduled to start in early January on a new center for active adult seniors at W.P. Jones Park. If all goes well with no construction delays do to weather, the building should be completed in June, and the center should open in August, according to Duluth Parks and Recreation Director Kathy Marelle. The Duluth City Council at its Dec. 12 meeting awarded a contract to build the center to Renaissance Building Construction in the amount of $548,458. The construction bid amount came in low enough that there should be enough budgeted funds left over to furnish and equip the center, Marelle said. The 2,400-square-foot center was designed by the Duluth-…
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Dusty Graham
10:16 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
In a time when Expenditures still outstrip Revenue, should we continue to build out? This project and the new dog park reflect an investment in our parks of over One Million dollars. During the last Citizens Budget Committee round, the parks department were already commenting on the fact that they were understaffed (before taking these latest two projects into consideration). Shouldn't we slow … more ›