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City of Fayetteville celebrates grand reopening of Dorothy Gilmore Therapeutic Recreation Center

By Staff Report, posted 1 year ago

The City of Fayetteville joined community members for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday morning to celebrate the reopening of Dorothy Gilmore Therapeutic Recreation Center (TRC), 1600 Purdue Drive.

The Gilmore TRC renovation includes a new interactive sensory room and family restrooms, remodeled kitchen with updated appliances, resurfaced parking lot and new paint and flooring throughout the facility. The project also includes a 3,099 square-foot expansion making the new size of the center 15,444 square-feet total.

The project received $775,000 from the parks and recreation bonds passed by voters in 2016, $100,000 from Cumberland County and $500,000 from the State of North Carolina.

Part of Fayetteville-Cumberland Parks and Recreation’s mission is “to provide quality and affordable park and recreation facilities, to include quality and affordable programs for youth, adults and citizens with special needs.”

The Dorothy Gilmore TRC helps fulfill that with a focus on citizens with special needs. The center’s slogan is “Where Abilities and dis-Abilities Become POSS-ABILITES.”

For more information about FCPR facilities, programming and activities, please visit fcpr.us.

 

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