Click here to download your group registration form for the Scavenger Hunt Adventure Saturday June 14, 11:30-1:30. This event will be fun for the whole family, and each registration raises $20 toward the Village Green Community Center. Go to the Kingston Chamber or the Kingston Community Center for more information if for some reason you can't print the registration form from here.
Click this button to go to the Village Green MPD site, then click Reservations there. Dates and times that are still available are visible on a calendar on the Reservations page.
Village Green Foundation
The mission of the Village Green Foundation is to build a place that connects and strengthens community. That place is both an intergenerational, multi-functional community center and library, and a park that's a gathering place for people of all ages.
The facility envisioned and planned will include an up-to-date senior center, a modern library, a Boys & Girls Club, a multipurpose room that will be usable by the community when the Boys & Girls Club kids are not being served, a commercial-grade kitchen, and large meeting rooms that will serve the public as rental space for receptions, anniversaries, and the like.
more info...All of this will be located just above the former military housing site that was reclaimed for the park in 2009. Architectural drawings are complete, and you see the building depicted in the rendering on this page, done for us by Brad Pugh.
The most significant development at the Village Green is the November opening of the separately-funded Village Green Senior Apartments. Their completion marks the completion of the first phase of the community center facility, because the infrastructure - electricity conduit, water, sewer line, road improvements - for both buildings was done jointly.
Metropolitan Park District
About the Village Green Metropolitan Park District:
While Village Green Foundation has responsibility for raising funds to build the community center, and for its construction, the Village Green Metropolitan Park District (MPD), formed in 2010 by ballot measure, maintains the park, and will both operate and maintain the building once it’s constructed.
Click below for more information on the MPD. The MPD meeting schedule is posted on the home page at www.myvillagegreen.org.
To reserve the park and/or picnic pavilion, go to www.myvillagegreen.org and go to Reservations.
Kingston Community Center
The present community center facility is 80 years old and has suffered from a lack of active maintenance. It is not safely accessed because of the two million cars and motorcycles driven by it annually when the state ferry loads and unloads.Parking is also limited, and the senior center is not ADA-compliant - its handicapped ramp is steep and ends in a concrete wall.
more info...The existing facility served the community forty or fifty years ago. Its limitations have helped to generate interest in a replacement facility to be located in a park adjacent to the Village Green Senior Apartments, separately funded and completed November 2013 and safely walkable to all downtown Kingston amenities.
click here to go to the Kingston Community Center page
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