Staffers and volunteers at the Lompoc Valley Senior and Community Center can start packing up their boxes.
On Sept. 3, the Lompoc City Council voted 4-0, with councilman Will Schuyler absent, to allocate more than $300,000 in funding to begin designing a new center at a new location on West Ocean Avenue in Lompoc. The city will pay Santa Barbara-based Kruger Benzer Ziemer Architects, Inc. $274,000 to design the new center.
According to city staff, the estimated cost of purchasing and renovating the site is about $4.78 million. Construction of the center is expected to begin in June 2009 and end in January 2010. The existing community center, located at 1501 E. Ocean Ave., is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a hospital parking lot.
Earlier this year, the city council appointed an ad hoc committee to help direct the design work of the project. The committee will begin meeting as soon as possible with the project architect, according to city staffers.
This article appears in Sep 11-18, 2008.
