Multi-Use Community Recreation Center

Project Description

This project secures land, designs and constructs a multi-use community center in Homer. The community has long prioritized the need for indoor municipal recreational and community space, especially considering the ongoing challenges of operating the City's Community Recreation Program in the local schools and in the City’s aging and defunct Homer Education and Recreation Complex (HERC), whose rehabilitation is complicated by the presence of hazardous materials. 

Scope

Phase 1: Land Purchase
Phase 2: Pre-Design Programming and Feasibility Study
Phase 3: Design
Phase 4: Construction

Phase

Cost Estimate (Rough Order Magnitude)

Pre-Design Programming,Feasibility Study, Design   $ 1,500,000
Construction                                                                    $15,000,000
Total:                                                                                 $16,500,000

Funding

Need and Benefits

A recreation center would address the City residents' identified need for reliable indoor space to deliver community recreation and educational programs. With the ongoing challenges of securing access to local school facilities, and the HERC building's age and condition limiting program options and making rehabilitation costly due to hazardous materials, a new center would provide dedicated, dependable space.

Updated 12/9/2025