Lancaster Gives Senior Center a High Priority
Lancaster city officials are going to try to find nearly $3 million to build a senior citizens center and perhaps also a youth facility on a five-acre site donated to the city years ago.
The Lancaster City Council voted 5 to 0 Monday night to direct city officials to explore funding options and to give the project a high priority. The undeveloped site, donated by former Councilman Forrest Hull, is at the corner of 17th Street West and Lancaster Boulevard.
City officials said the senior center would include a kitchen that could prepare up to 1,500 meals a day. The senior nutrition program, run by the Antelope Valley Committee on Aging, provides about 600 meals daily. The meals are prepared at the county’s Mira Loma detention facility.
City officials said senior citizens could use the kitchen and other facilities during the day. The building could then be used by teen-agers in the evenings. The proposed 14,335-square-foot building would leave about 2 1/2 acres for a park.
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