After four angst-filled years of meetings, debates, council discussions and building tours, a new community center site has been chosen. And this one, it appears, will stick.
“We worked with Bollig, they’ve come and visited the building twice,” said Tracy City Administrator Jeff Carpenter. “We’ve had people go through it, and I was given permission after a closed session to buy it. Bollig came back in the last week and gave us a low number of a minimum number of things to get us in there to have a community center, and a high end.”
The Tracy City Council on Nov. 12 voted 5-1 to purchase the former ADO (America’s Doctors of Optometry Inc.) building at the intersection of South and 2nd streets with the intention of turning it into a community center. Council member Dave Tiegs has the lone no vote, and told the Tracy Area Headlight Herald it is his belief that Tracy simply does not need to sink money into a community center, either a newly-built one, or in an existing building.