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

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 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.

