In the September 14 article headlined “Architects, CCBC refine options for community center,” Option 3 for the community center was incorrectly described and a quote from CCBC member Tim Christenfeld was presented slightly out of context. The article has been corrected and also updated with a new penultimate paragraph describing the upcoming State of the…
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Architects, CCBC refine options for community center
(Editor’s note: This article was updated on September 17.) Architects and the Community Center Building Committee this week continued to refine the community center options that residents will see at the State of the Town meeting on September 30, ending Wednesday with three main options plus alternates to two of them. On September 13, ICON…
New rotating-topic format for State of the Town meeting
There are four important topics to be discussed at the State of the Town (SOTT) meeting on September 30, and the Select Board has devised a new way to help residents focus and give feedback on them. Rater than one continuous meeting, there will be four 45-minute repeating rotating sessions in different locations at the…
My Turn: “adaptive reuse” is a good starting point for community center
By Lynne Smith At the August 16 Community Center Building Committee meeting, ICON Architecture presented options for the proposed community center. These options will be sent to an estimator for refined costs. In this article, I will focus on Option 3, Adaptive Reuse, estimated to cost up to $12.5 million. As Lincoln has found in…
Corrections
The August 20 article headlined “Architects zero in on three design options for community center” had several errors: The cost estimates given for the three schemes were the target costs (i.e., the maximum as stipulated by the November 2022 Town Meeting vote). The actual cost estimates are $22.75 million for scheme 1, $18.7 million for…
Architects zero in on three design options for community center
(Editor’s note: this article was updated on August 22 to reflect corrections in the square footage of scheme 1 and the three estimated projects costs.) ICON Architecture presented three design options to the Community Center Building Committee on August 16 and will forward them to the company’s cost estimator to get firmer price tags before…
My Turn: Community Center Building Committee ponders problems
By Lynne Smith The agenda for the August 9 Community Center Building Committee working group was to be a discussion of the State of the Town presentation on September 30. However, the issues that have occupied the committee from the very beginning superseded that discussion: What is a community center for Lincoln? Is it a…
Correction
In the July 30 article headlined “My Turn: Schools drive CCBC discussion at July 26 meeting,” a broken link at the end of the paragraph starting with “A low-cost option…” was corrected, and a late-breaking correction was made to the bulleted list of cost options. Also, Alison Taunton-Rigby’s quote (“All three programs…”) was removed from…
My Turn: Schools drive CCBC discussion at July 26 meeting
Editor’s note: this article was updated on July 31 at the author’s request to correct a link at the end of the paragraph starting with “A low-cost option…” and make a late-breaking correction to the bulleted list of cost options. Alison Taunton-Rigby’s quote (“All three programs…”) was also moved from what the editor believes is…
My Turn: CCBC offers revised site plans but no cost estimates
By Lynne Smith Editor’s note: the CCBC’s next regular meetings (Zoom only) are scheduled for July 26 and August 16 at 7:30 p.m. See the CCBC home page for Zoom links. At the June 28 Community Center Building Committee meeting, ICON offered three new site plans that differed significantly from the earlier plans — the…