Some Sherwood Park residents oppose site for proposed Boys and Girls Club building
Global News
'Our mandate is to be as good of a neighbour as possible — but our focus is on the children. Having an 800-child waitlist right now is something we can't ignore.'
A move meant to improve the lives of children in Sherwood Park has instead pitted groups of adults against each other.
The Strathcona County Boys and Girls Club already serves more than 2,000 kids but has a waiting list of 800 more and wants to build a new facility.
It would be a two-storey, net-zero building with space for a variety of programming.
The BGC and county have agreed on a piece of land in the Brentwood neighbourhood, beside the community’s elementary school — but some area residents are pushing back against the plan that would see the building constructed where a grove of trees currently sits.
The BGC has wanted a new facility for a decade now but securing land and enough money to construct a building has been an obstacle for the non-profit.
BGC board president Alison Ottewell said the organization had been in talks with Strathcona County since spring of 2022 about identifying an appropriate piece of land.
The club also applied to the federal government’s Green and Inclusive Community Buildings Program and in December 2022, heard back that it could have 60 per cent of its $10-million facility covered by the GICB program — if it had land ready to go by the end of February.
“Having the federal government announce this really put some pressure on us,” Ottewell said.
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