An engineering firm is in the final stages of a feasibility study for a possible project within the city of Jefferson.

City Administrator Scott Peterson says the engineering firm, Bolton and Menk, is developing financial figures for a preferred option that followed a stakeholder meeting about the Greenewood Center. He reminds everyone that a study was kicked off a few months ago about the idea that if the city acquired the property, what that might look like, as well as moving the current clubhouse to that area and providing an additional parking lot and creating new housing near the golf course. 

Peterson points out that after the stakeholder meeting was held, the preferred option was to keep the main floor virtually the same, so that Congregate Meals could continue to operate with their commercial kitchen and open dining room, along with bringing the laundry area up from the basement and to not make any changes to the existing apartment that is attached to the facility. 

“What of the biggest things to come out of the stakeholders meeting was really the realization that the area is largely underused. And that there’s so many other options that that space could be used for. And so, whether we are looking at this as a rental space for family reunions, or graduation parties or whatever that might be. But it’s also that it can just be some additional space for use by Greenewood residents or also by use by the public, so it can be available for rent.”

Peterson notes that the basement will then be changed to house the clubhouse, along with dramatic adjustments to the outside with significant grading, providing an additional parking lot, as well as housing. He adds that the finalized study may take another month to complete and be presented at an upcoming city council meeting.