The Greensboro City Council is getting an update on the Windsor Chavis Nocho Community Complex at the work session at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 27 in the Plaza Level Conference Room.
The Windsor Chavis Nocho Community Complex is a combination of the Windsor Recreation Center and the Vance Chavis Branch Library currently catty corner from Windsor across the East Gate City Boulevard and Benbow Road intersection and Nocho Park which is across Gate City Boulevard from the Windsor Center.
The project began in 2016 with $2 million in recreation bond funding for planning and design.
According to the report to Council the design phase should be completed by December. January 2024 to November 2024 is scheduled for preparing the construction documents and permitting, with bidding and contract approval set for December 2024 through February 2025. Construction is scheduled to begin in February 2025 and be complete by March 2027.
If there are no delays along the way, that would have the opening of the Windsor Chavis Nocho Community Complex 11 years after the first $2 million in bond funding was approved by the City Council.
The funding that has already been committed for the project includes $8 million in general fund money freed up by American Rescue Plan funds, $50 million in 2022 recreation bond money and $15 million from Guilford County for a total of $73 million.
However, construction costs have risen considerably from when the project was first funded in 2016. What can be built in 2023 with $73 million is far different from what could be built in 2016 for the same price.
When the preliminary designs were presented to the City Council Councilmember Yvonne Johnson commented that she had concerns about the way it looked, but from the graphics in the report, it doesn’t appear that major changes have been made to the exterior of the proposed community complex.
Lol, if it ever is constructed, what will the cost be to taxpayers for maintaince or will maintaince be like the school systems way of taking care of buildings?
That’s just what I was thinking. Given the county’s propensity toward just ignoring maintenance, they need to lean more towards easy maintenance. But, then again they also have also perfected the “ignore it till it rots, then issue a HUGE bond, and just build new” method. You know the one that places all the burden on the taxpayers. Worked for them so far.
Just wait for the bidding starts for this throw away. It will be interesting to see how many bids will be rejected and for what reasons. It will again prove that Greensboro is not a good town to try to do business with unless you answer to proper parties and the select power hungry poll seekers and give away taxpayers money.
Just another wasye of tax payer money considering the state of the economy. This 73 million dollar project will ended up at least 20% over cost and the tax payer will be on the hook again!
Sorry to say 20% over is way too low you forgot to figure in the cost of Hightower and the mwbe part of this. Just wait and see what skips jail project ends up costing the taxpayers because of this crap not to mention it’s cost another year for the project
While they let the Lindley Park Ballfield bathrooms fall down due to lack of maintenance! Rain comes through ceiling and they close bathrooms when it rains. Sad state of affairs.
Right!
It’s going to be glorious!
This all started in 2016 and this is as far as they have got. I smell a waste of taxpayer money here and kickbacks. The people need to pay attention to see which company wins the bid.
By extension, the company that wins the bid is one of those who support our socialist government.
ABOUT TIME ‼️ These 3 landmarks have been around for DECADES in the BLACK community and it’s about damn time they get a MODERNIZED RENOVATION the same way they INVEST tax payers money in the white neighborhoods! HAT’S OFF