The Elmwood Community Center, which will bring together the senior center, teen center, a library branch and more into one central building, has been in the works for a few years now, with plans formulating after the town bought the former St. Brigid School at 100 Mayflower St. in 2021. The town hired GWWO Architects earlier this year to begin designing what the new 82,000 square foot community center would look like. According to the town’s request for proposal for its construction manager, which Palmer said is who will actually build the facility, the construction portion of the project is estimated to cost around $55 million. Once complete, the town’s new Elmwood Community Center will replace the aging community center on New Britain Avenue that was originally built nearly 100 years ago in 1931. The town’s proposal for its construction manager said it was seeking to build a new community center as issues at the current center, citing “handicapped accessibility, aging building infrastructure, site access and parking issues, program constraints” as persistent problems.
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