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Snellville begins construction on 34,000-square-foot community center at TW Briscoe Park
Summary
Mayor Barbara Bender said construction is underway on a 34,000-square-foot community center at TW Briscoe Park, a project on the city master plan for more than 20 years funded in part by the city's one-cent sales tax and other sources. Construction crews are finishing grading and installing utilities; no completion date was specified.
Mayor Barbara Bender said Snellville has begun construction on a 34,000-square-foot community center at TW Briscoe Park off Lenora Church Road.
“This center will have 2 full size regulation basketball courts that will be striped for multi purpose, multi a lot of different sports that we can, set that up for,” Mayor Bender said, adding the building will include an aerobics room, additional multi-purpose and activity rooms, new park offices and an indoor walking track above the courts.
The project has been part of the city master plan for more than 20 years, and work at Briscoe Park represents the latest phase of park updates carried out over roughly the last 15 years, Bender said. She said the city has “had funding from multiple sources” and that “we're getting a good portion of our funds from this flossed. So that extra penny that we vote on every 6 years, we're putting it to work here to provide this wonderful indoor community center.”
On construction progress, Bender said crews are finishing grading and have installed underground utilities. “They are have installed utilities underground. We will have, the pad will be poured soon. As the utilities go in, the water line is installed, and they are going to be, connecting the gas line and fiber as well. We'll be coming very shortly. So once the pad goes in, then we'll start seeing steel go up on the construction,” she said.
City officials did not provide a projected completion date during the remarks.
Why it matters: The center is intended to expand indoor recreation capacity for city residents, increase space available for summer camps and youth programs, and add amenities to a city-owned park that officials say the community has requested for years.
No formal votes, motions or timeline commitments were announced in the remarks presented at the park; funding sources beyond the voter-approved one-cent measure and “multiple sources” were not specified.
