The Douglas County community and senior center in the valley will open more than five months ahead of schedule and more than $10,000 under budget. Contractors expect to be done Dec. 6.

Core Construction was credited for its help in keeping the project below the $16.9 million budget as well as for
finishing well before the original opening goal of April 2015.

The grand opening will showcase the building’s 83,000-square-feet housing a full-size double gymnasium, jogging track, fitness facility, two racket ball courts, seven activity rooms, a preschool room, community health nurse facility, senior and adult daycare, grand senior dining room, lounge, gift shop and administrative offices.

Frontier Communications is donating free Wi-Fi to the center for the next five years.

The Douglas County Community Services Foundation is still collecting funds to help furnish and purchase
equipment.