Getting Closer

It’s been a  whirlwind summer for the Rural Learning Center facility design project. As you’ll see in the slideshow below (or by clicking here), the design of the new conference and training center is really coming along thanks to your input and ideas. We’ve held a couple more charrette-like design sessions in July and August–mostly with particular partners who will use the facility often and so need to get into the details. We’ve also begun to think about materials and colors for the outside of the building. We’ll show you the ideas as soon as we have them from Koch Hazard Architects.

We’ve also been busy pulling together a whole lot of partners and sponsors for the project. As you’ll see in the slideshow, this thing is going to cost $11.6 million to build, and we’ve secured just under $4 million so far. There’s a lot fo work left to do!

We’ll be inviting hte whole community and all the other partners and stakeholders in this project to a community gathering sometime in early October (watch this site and the local papers) to show you the details of the plan and get more input and ideas from you. This is your facility, after all.