Grandview Plaza residents will soon have their community center back, following the completion of the new City Hall being built to the south of the former City Hall building currently occupied by the Police Department.

Jerome Thomas, City Superintendent explained that the city offices moved from its former location into the community center due to problems with the older building.

“Basically we had to shell it because the roof had some animal feces and had a lot of mold in it and it was making a lot of people sick. So we moved over to the upstairs of the Community Center,” said Thomas.

In order to give the community center back to the residents the city had to construct a new office building. Cheney Construction was hired to construct a 40 x 60 metal building directly south of the former building. Thomas expects that the City should be able to move into the new location within the next three weeks.

The former building has renovated and the Police Department is now utilizing that space.

Thomas also updated JC Post on efforts being undertaken to bring a splash park to Grandview Plaza. He explained that on a recent trip Police Chief Shawn Pierano saw a splash park and wanted to see if the city could put one somewhere in GVP.

“He came to me and talked to me and I said it sounds good, so then he talked to Honey Grant and those two really got the ball rolling. They went to the Flint Hills Regional Council and they are going to try to use them to see if there are grants available, funding available, and they will help us engineer it and design it.”

Thomas said that he believes they’re looking at a two-year time frame on the splash park. Early thoughts are to place it in one of the city parks.