The City Council unanimously voted this week to move ahead with the senior center project at 116 Cook Ave. The site’s blighted medical office complex which has stood vacant for 25 years will be demolished to make room for a modern, centrally located community center. The council plans to establish a building committee in late October or November and begin toward a tentative timetable, with ground being broken some time in 2025. The estimated $48 million project will see the reclamation of the 5.6-acre parcel and the construction of a 33,000-square-foot building that will serve not only as a senior center, but as a consolidated office space for the city’s health and human services divisions, with an 8,000-square-foot multipurpose gymnasium that can be used for events or disaster relief.
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