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Our
History
It took imagination and hard work to create our Park City Senior Center. In 1976 Union Pacific Railroad donated its abandoned Keetley Depot Station to the Park City Seniors. Located under what is today’s Jordanelle Reservoir, the building took two years and a lot of manual labor and money to move it to the current location at 1361 Woodside Avenue in Park City. Since then, two wings have been added, and the Center has become a warm and lively gathering spot for us Park City elders.
Our
Future
The “Silver Tsunami” has arrived! Over 16% of Park City and Summit County’s population is now age 60 or more; and that percentage is growing as Baby Boomers join our ranks. This is a nation-wide phenomenon.
The Park City Senior Center is also growing to meet the demands of this active, engaged group. Our membership has increased from about 70 seniors a few years ago to over 500 today and we continue to grow.
We are currently in the planning stages with Park City Municipal Corp. to build us a larger, better designed building next door to our current facility in order to accommodate all the programs and activities our membership enjoys. The center will be part of an affordable housing complex which will include some senior housing. Our planning also includes discussions with Summit County about their continuing (and, hopefully, expanding) role supporting our group.
Eventually we would like to be open for lunches five days a week instead of the current two, and open daily for a variety of activities. We are making progress though. Beginning March 2024, we have expanded our days of operation. We are now open 4 days each week, Monday through Thursday. Until we can figure out additional lunches, it’s ‘bag lunch’ days on Tuesday and Wednesday
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Progress – Senor Center
Woodside II Working Committee
January 2025 Update
by Francie McNally
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
The Woodside II Working Committee met with the City team on December 11, 2024. A recap of the information from this meeting prior to the City Council Work Session on December 19, 2024 are two options that the Project Team presented for our review and comments.
1. Continue with the current RFP consisting of:
• A 10,000 sf Senior Center (Developer proposes 5,000 sf per floor)
• 44 affordable housing units with no Senior designated units
• No market rate units
• 20 parking spaces
• Cost $20 M, or
2. Discontinue the current RFP and refocus on a stand-along Senior Center. Revisit the affordable housing options later.
• A 10,000 sf Senior Center
• No affordable housing
• Cost $10 M ($3.5 M already budgeted)
The Work Session on December 19 ended with questions regarding these two proposals from several Council members so the action on these proposals was tabled until January 9, 2025.
Everyone is encouraged to attend the January 9th meeting to show our support.