The Sandpoint Teen Center is expanding, now offering a space for children on the Sandpoint Middle School campus as well as at its original location at First Lutheran Church.
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With a safe location in hand for the community's youth to gather, the Sandpoint Teen Center is ready to celebrate.
"We want the community to know we were very encouraged by all the support helping us look for a youth center in Sandpoint," Kate Mansur said. "We had many businesses, volunteer groups and individuals searching and offering labor and materials if we found a home."
That will soon change as STC officials announced they had found a new location and plans to reopen the center as soon as this fall.
Located in the former Mountain Lake Dentistry building, 1323 Michigan, the building is right across the street from Sandpoint high school and middle school.
While the location is great, the facility needs to be remodeled from the ground up. While it will involve a lot of work from plumbing to drywall to painting, STC staff said the site offers the ideal location. It also offers the teen center to give teams from a hangout space to an after-school basketball court to a game room and a full-service kitchen that will allow STC to relaunch its culinary program.