The first portion of an $800,000 renovation to the Lansing-based Gier Community Center is complete, providing additional gym space and spectator seating for community members.
“We were able to make our facility safer by giving spectators a place to sit,” says Gier Community Center Director Brett Kaschinske. “In doing that, we were able to add a few features including two more basketball courts and a batting tunnel.”
Gier Community Center hosts youth basketball programs, floor hockey teams, after-school programs, summer camps, teen programs and aerobics classes. Kaschinske says the center’s been in need of a renovation since its inception in 1975 and has been building a construction budget for the last several years.
“It’s an $800,000 investment, but our total costs aren’t up to that right now. But we are doing some other things,” he says.
Renovations started in June. In October, the Gier Community Center held an open house to celebrate the new gym space. Kincaid Henry Building Group worked on the project.
Source: Brett Kaschinske, Gier Community Center
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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