James Moreland, community leader
Mayor Andy Berke announced Thursday that he plans to include $6 million in his upcoming budget for a new Recreation Center at Avondale.
He said at a press conference at the current center on Dodson Avenue, "We want to make an investment in Avondale."
Mayor Berke said the current center by Wilcox Boulevard was built in 1949 and last remodeled in 2002.
The new center, which is due to open in late 2017, will be twice the size of the current center.
It will include an official gym with bleachers, a computer lab, a literacy and reading room and multiple classrooms. There will also be a full-size kitchen.
There will be a large softball field and improved outdoor basketball court.
City Council Chairman Moses Freeman called it "a great day for all of us here."
Mayor Andy Berke