Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Inside the Former Senior Center - Soon to be Compass along w/ Pride Tid-bits

During the Pride weekend here in Lake Worth, Compass took many small groups through the former Mid-County Senior Center. I happened to go through on Saturday afternoon. They have some great plans for the place and I am sure it will become a great community center.

I bumped into Julie last night at the Mad Hatter - she is now Director of Operations there. This is definitely a believe-it-or-not story, but guess what happened Sunday at Bryant Park during PrideFest. Something that you wouldn't think would be too likely to happen at a gay pride event. Someone had a BABY! She was from Broward County and, with her contractions happening every two minutes, she actually wanted to drive back home to go to one their hospitals. That's when the event staff called an ambulance and the baby was delivered there. Who'd a thunk that?!?!

Anyway, here are some pictures of the building and some of the spaces within. I have a floor plan of what it will become, but will need to photograph those separately - too big to scan.

Front of the building, looking west.

In the central lobby area that runs the east/west length of the building.

Upstairs - they will be adding an elevator to access their administrative space.

Stage area for large room on north side of building.

Looking the other way, from the stage.

Julie also said that they are applying for a lot of new grants and plan to greatly expand the nature of their services. This was discussed at the Commission meetings that considered the lease with the City. Really quite impressive.

PrideFest Tidbits:

Here are some other links to sites with pictures from the weekend. Enjoy!