TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Tallahassee is preparing to welcome a growing generation of seniors to the Capital City with a new senior center.
Choose Tallahassee has been consistently recruiting from the baby boomer generation and the city commissioners have made room for them in their budget.
"We are just totally bursting here on North Monroe street, we are kind of at capacity with more activities and things we can provide so we are very excited to have another center," said Sheila Salyer, the senior services manager of the City of Tallahassee.
The Tallahassee Senior Center has been offering activities for retirees for the last 40 years, but with a growing boomer population, it was time for more space.
"This has been a wonderful and will still be a wonderful senior center in the old armory," said Salyer. "It's just not big enough now."
In April of 2014, commissioners proposed that the new center will be built on property in the new Canopy development, just off of Welaunee Road. It's just dirt right now but soon this landscape will boast a 60,000 square foot senior center for all new retirees to enjoy.
"Part of it would be a life long learning center with classroom space, art studio space, a music studio, a wellness center," said Salyer.
The center would attract more and more residents to live the rest of their life in the Capital City.
Tallahassee City Commissioners expect the project to continue through 2020.
