Construction continues on new Boys and Girls Club

MOSES LAKE - The windows are in at the new Boys and Girls Club, and interior insulation should be going up by the end of the week. "Things are progressing," said club Executive Director Brant Mayo, but no completion date has been announced.

The last exterior windows were going in Monday morning on the new clubhouse, located next to Park Orchard Elementary, 417 N. Paxson Dr. Electrical, plumbing and heating-cooling contractors are on site this week, with drywall installation scheduled to start next week, Mayo said.

At roughly 10,700 square feet, the building is about twice the size of the existing facility, Mayo said.

Once the drywall is in, the project moves on to installing doors and cabinets, finishing the lighting and concrete floors, installing the interior windows and interior fixtures like water fountains. Landscaping will be completed in the spring, Mayo said.

The biggest room, the game and activity room, takes up most of one side of the building. The building also includes an art room along with a space for teens, targeted at middle-school students.

There's a learning center for the homework program. A meeting room that can be rented by community groups is just off the lobby. There's also a small kitchen.

Most of the equipment going into the new building will be new too, Mayo said in an earlier interview, and the staff may have to be expanded to accommodate more kids and bigger space.

Kids at the club will have access to the computer lab at Park Orchard after school, along with the school gym and cafeteria, Mayo said. Park Orchard students will have access to the Boys and Girls Club building during the school day, when the club is closed, he said.

The club also will have access to the school's play fields, its playground, tether ball and basketball courts, and Harrison K. Dano Park next door, Mayo said. "There have been some really good partnerships," he said.

"It's going to change the organization for the better," Mayo said, offering outdoor space for kids, something that's not available at the current downtown site.

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Construction continues on new Boys and Girls Club