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Onalaska’s $6 million community center on schedule for late summer opening

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Almost five months after a groundbreaking ceremony, a new community center project in Onalaska is about halfway finished.

Onalaska’s park director, Dan Wick, told WIZM that a major stage in the construction happened this week.

“They poured the concrete for the gym floor, so that needs to sit now for a couple of months before they can start putting the hardwood floors in,” Wick said. “But they can work on the interior stuff, all the things in the gym.”

Wick is hoping to have the $6 million community center open in August, along Quincy Street.

The new community center for Onalaska is seen from the air. (PHOTO: city of Onalaska)
A rendering of the new center is posted outside the construction area. (PHOTO: Brad Williams)

The gym facilities and meeting rooms will replace a former Onalaska community building that had stood since the 1970s. Wick saidthe weather has helped move the project along.

“Things are going very well,” says Wick, with “a very mild winter so far, and so the contractors are working diligently to get the project going.

“The anticipated schedule completion was early July, and so we look like hopefully we’re on schedule to make that happen,” he said.

Ground was broken for the new center along Quincy Street back in September.

Senior programs and meals will start early in the morning after the facility opens, followed by youth activities in the late afternoon and evening.

Floors are being prepared inside the center, which will provide recreation space and dining halls. (city of Onalaska)

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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