
ELKINS — The renovation job at the Phil Gainer Neighborhood Middle has been accomplished, as the remaining phase of generating the whole facility totally climate-managed was not too long ago finished.
“I’m grateful that metropolis officials recognize the benefit that the Phil Gainer Group Center retains in Elkins and Randolph County,” PGCC director Chris Lee told The Inter-Mountain Tuesday. “They recognized that this venture was very important to guaranteeing that the facility is the ideal it can be for the folks that we serve.
“I imagine of this undertaking as a long-time period determination to our neighborhood that would not have transpired with no group invest in-in and assistance from our town officers.”
The new HVAC program will allows the centre to host events it could not in the previous, primarily all through the incredibly hot summer months.
“I’m joyful with the outcomes of the HVAC set up for the reason that it basically tends to make the Phil Gainer Group Centre a far better area for the many family members and organizations in the local community who use it,” Lee stated.
“With the absence of air conditioning we experienced in the past, we have been only proficiently running for four months out of the yr,” he mentioned. “When it started to heat up in May perhaps, the facility became fewer practical to our local community until finally it cooled down once more in Oct. It is constantly been a priority that the PGCC is below to serve our neighborhood and we ended up unable to do that 12 months-spherical until finally now.”
Lee claimed that term of all the updates is by now filtering in the course of the group, and because of that, desire for use of the centre is previously on the increase.
“We are currently seeing tangible effects with our calendar filling up in months where by it traditionally has not,” he mentioned. “We are by now starting up to entice new summer season banquets and other official activities like weddings, which we could not have formerly accommodated with no air conditioning.
“In the earlier we ended up getting rid of close to a 3rd of our prospective revenue for the reason that we had been almost closed down for four months out of the 12 months.”
Other than the HVAC upgrades, the facility also obtained a new roof on one particular part of the setting up, new vitality productive windows, new lights and a new drop ceiling in the lobby, conference space and entry way into the gymnasium.
“With the completion of this challenge we are equally superior serving the community, and having steps toward accomplishing the Phil Gainer Local community Center’s true profits possible,” Lee claimed. “And it is that income that will enable us to offer cost-free programming for our neighborhood youth, which is a extremely essential part of what we’re doing here at the middle.”
In 2014, Elkins Metropolis Council voted to acquire the previous National Guard Armory for $200,000. After its acquire by the city, the facility was renamed the Phil Gainer Neighborhood Middle.
Then in 2019, City Council conveyed the Phil Gainer Neighborhood Centre to the Elkins Building Fee in get to difficulty bonds up to $750,000 to pay out for renovations at the facility.









