• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar

The Lincoln Squirrel – News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.

  • Home
  • About/Contact
  • Advertise
  • Legal Notices
    • Submitting legal notices
  • Lincoln Resources
    • Coming Up in Lincoln
    • Municipal Calendar
    • Lincoln Links
  • Merchandise
  • Subscriptions
    • My Account
    • Log In
    • Log Out
  • Lincoln Review
    • About the Lincoln Review
    • Issues
    • Submit your work

Two community center-related projects are about to begin

January 28, 2025

The first visible signs of the community center project are appearing in the form of two projects that are about to get underway before main construction starts this summer.
 
Workers have trimmed tree and put up fencing in Strat’s Place between Lincoln Road and the main Hartwell building in preparation for building a new playground. The former wooden playground dating from 1989 was taken down 10 years ago amid safety concerns. Work to trim or cut down ailing or old trees is complete, and the chain link fencing is temporary while workers perform soil remediation (removing soil containing nails and splinters as well as buried tarmac and playground supports). By this summer, the area will be grassed over.
 
“Our expectation is to have this work completed by June, so that the Magic Garden children have a play area during construction,” said Community Center Building Committee member Alison Taunton-Rigby. Magic Garden is responsible for funding and installing the play structures will eventually go there.
 
Bids are due on February 5 for the new school maintenance shop in the first floor in the southwest corner of the Hartwell building, replacing some small office and storage rooms. Work on the $185,000 project is expected to take place in the spring so that the shop can be relocated from Pod B by May or June.
 
The two projects will pave the way for construction of the community center, which is expected go out to bid in April, break ground in July, and finish by late fall 2026. A detailed budget update and other documents can be found on this CCBC web page.

Category: community center*

Primary Sidebar

Upcoming Events

May 9
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Jessa Piaia as Isabella Stewart Gardner

May 9
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Volunteer work day at Twin Pond

May 10
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Lincoln Democrats caucus

May 10
11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Garden Cub plant sale

May 12
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

“Fort-Night”

View Calendar

Recent Posts

  • My Turn: Planning for climate-friendly aviation May 8, 2025
  • News acorns May 7, 2025
  • Legal notice: Select Board public hearing May 7, 2025
  • Property sales in March and April 2025 May 6, 2025
  • Public forums, walks scheduled around Panetta/Farrington proposal May 5, 2025

Squirrel Archives

Categories

Secondary Sidebar

Search the Squirrel:

Privacy policy

© Copyright 2025 The Lincoln Squirrel · All Rights Reserved.