Breaking ground on Willmar’s future
The city of Willmar held its groundbreaking ceremony June 30 for the combined $16 million projects at the Willmar Civic Center. Written By: Tim Speier | ×
Co-chair of the Recreation Fields subcommittee Tony Amon speaks Wednesday, June 30, 2021, during the groundbreaking ceremony to commence construction of the events center and recreation fields projects at the Willmar Civic Center.
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WILLMAR Moving forward with two of the largest Invest in the Willmar Local Option Sales Taxprojects, the city of Willmar held its groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday, June 30, at the Willmar Civic Center.
“When you have events like this, you really need to sit back and reflect on the people that made it happen,” Willmar Mayor Marv Calvin said.
Ground officially broken on phase 2 of the sales tax project at Robbins Island in Willmar
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Latest round of Willmar local option sales tax projects approved for construction
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Willmar council to hold hearing on health care bonds
The Willmar City Council meets at 7 p.m. Monday in the board room of the Kandiyohi County Health and Human Services building. 7:00 am, Apr. 5, 2021
WILLMAR The Willmar City Council will hold a public hearing at the start of its meeting Monday for the issuance of health care revenue bonds by CentraCare Health System. The hearing begins at 7 p.m. in the board room of the Kandiyohi County Health and Human Services Building.
The city council will also discuss setting a hearing for a proposal to amend city zoning for multi-family housing to allow a project in an area zoned for general business use.
Gretchen Otness, the chair of the Invest in Willmar Rec and Event Center Subcommittee, who were in control of designing the project, was frustrated over the concerns being raised. She said the subcommittee did the best it could, creating a project that efficiently used the budget allotted to it. After two years of discussion and planning, it made sense to build the largest portion of the project first and have the smaller pieces, including the ice rink, be future projects.
She also made it clear the budget for the project was not adequate for what the public might be hoping for.