The basketball courts at the 12th Street Community Center will reopen for use on June 9th.

The Director of the Junction City Recreation Department, Donna Swihart, said the courts were refinished, sanded down all the way to bare wood. “Generally speaking after about 15 years they recommend that they take them all the way down, and it was close to 20. So we hired a great group and they came in and took it down to the bare wood, restriped it, repainted it, refinished it and they look fantastic.” The Lankford Company did the work.

In the past the courts had Jayhawk and Wildcat logos in the middle, but that was not included with the new project. Swihart noted the cost of registered trademarks was a little bit high.