Binghamton Community Center Project to be Discussed

Residents of Binghamton's North Side will be able to learn more about a community center expansion at a public meeting to be hosted by the city.

The session is to be held in the cafeteria of Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School at 9 Ogden Street at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

City officials will provide details of a $450,000 project planned for the Lee Barta Community Center. The facility on Liberty Street is named in memory of a Binghamton police officer who died in the line of duty in 1995.

The new center is to be three times the size of the current facility. It's expected to open next fall.

An abandoned house next to the community center will be torn down to make room for the addition to the facility.

State funds are to cover most of the project cost. The city is covering $100,000 of the bill with money from the general operating fund and federal grants. Visions Federal Credit Union is providing $50,000 for the construction of a community room.

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