Earlier this month, the Surprise City Council approved an intergovernmental agreement with Maricopa County to create a multigenerational community resource center in the City’s Original Town Site.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has also approved the agreement and will contribute $18M made available under the American Rescue Plan Act. The total cost estimate for the new 38KSF center is $26.4M. Surprise will use $5.04M of its own ARPA funding and a one-time $3.35M general fund expenditure to cover the remainder of the cost.
The new Northwest Community Resource Center is expected to provide more room for expanded youth and teen programming, which has been a City goal for decades. The new facility at 15660 N. Hollyhock St. will be used to replace services currently split among three smaller buildings on the site. Those buildings – a former library, senior center and resource center – will be turned over for other uses in the future.
The City has already performed its first environmental study for the site. (Source)