Plans for Park City’s new senior center continue to grow — to 13,000-15,000 square feet of interior space, which is four to five times larger than the current center’s 3,200 square feet.  That’s all according to the latest update from Matt Lee, economic development project manager for P ark City, during a meeting last week between the Park City Council and the Summit County Council.  The current building is too small and can’t accommodate the center’s explosive membership, Lee said: 70 members in 2020, about 380 in 2022 and more than 750 as of March. Plus, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute projects that the number of people 65 and older in Summit County will increase by 42% in the next 10 years and up to 67% by 2065.  The new building would occupy the Mawhinney lot, across Park Avenue from the Park City Library in the library’s overflow parking lot. The lot is 1.09 acres and today holds 47 parking spaces, with a little over half of the remaining lot as open space. The city would seek to retain those 47 spots, though the minimum required is 33 stalls.  “There are 13 stalls that are identified in the library (master planned development) from the renovation of the library back in 2013,” Lee said. “There are 13 spots that are dedicated … as overflow usage for the library, so we’d have to replace those.”  Add that to the current senior center building’s required 20 parking stalls minimum and you get the 33 required minimum, Lee said. Regardless, the current design the city is pursuing for the lot seeks to retain 47 parking spaces — 39 in one lot and eight stalls off of Sullivan Road.  The current plan for the new senior center’s interior is 13,000 square feet, but that could go up to 15,000 square feet if the project receives more funding. The building’s height could not exceed 27 feet, and at least 30 percent of the lot would have to be open space. For the building itself, the current design for the interior targets 13,000 square feet with a building footprint of 7,500 square feet, which would cost about $14.4 million. The architecture firm the city is working with, Sparano + Mooney, had recommended a 15,000-square-foot design, and City Council had previously targeted a 10,000-square-foot design. After receiving feedback from seniors that 10,000 would be too small, the city has split the difference and targeted a 13,000-square-foot design.  But depending on how funding shakes out, that square footage could still go up. The current design of the building has flexibility to expand up to the architecture firm’s original vision of a 15,000-square-foot interior and an 8,000-square-foot building footprint. That size is projected to cost about $16.6 million. City staff are still ironing out how the funding will work out, which will inform the final particulars of the design.  In the meantime, Lee presented a working timeline: The City Council approves the schematic design in July 2026, the Planning Commission approves a conditional use permit and a master planned development by September, the city secures a general contractor by fall and starts construction in March 2027.  The building would then open a year and a half later in fall 2028. “That would be the goal, best-case scenario,” Lee said. The post Park City senior center design targeting 13,000 square feet  appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less