A move is underway on the part of the City of Colorado Springs to build a new senior center at the site of an existing senior facility.
The one-story Colorado Springs Senior Center, which has been in operation since the 1970s, is located at 1514 N. Hancock Avenue and is a part of the larger Golf Acres Shopping Center.
City officials have said that the center, which offers food for seniors, as well as a wide variety of recreational and informational programs, is too small for current purposes and would like to demolish that structure as well as a row of retail spaces adjacent to the building.
In so doing, the site, some two miles to the northeast of downtown Colorado Springs, would be freed for the construction of a new 25,000 square foot building, roughly 8,000 square feet larger than the current facility.
It is thought that it will cost around $8 million to build the new structure, with funding coming through the American Rescue Plan Act.
According to city documents, planning for the project, with any number of public input meetings, will continue well into this coming spring. Actual construction is slated to start in the summer.
A general completion date has been announced for the spring or summer of 2025.
By Garry Boulard
