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Shillito Park Road estará cerrada desde las 7 p.m. del 8 de septiembre hasta las 7 a.m. del 9 de septiembre para trabajos de pavimentación relacionados con la construcción del nuevo Centro de Recreación para Adultos Mayores y Terapéutico de Lexington, con cierres intermitentes durante el día y demoras esperadas de 15 minutos. El nuevo centro de 26,000 pies cuadrados, con un costo de 24 millones de dólares, servirá a adultos mayores de 55 años y a adultos y niños con discapacidades, consolidando programas que han superado la capacidad de los centros existentes con más de 3,200 participantes. Se espera que el centro abra más adelante este año en la ubicación de Shillito Park, elegida porque muchos adultos mayores viven en el lado sur de la ciudad cerca del área de Fayette Mall.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Shillito Park Road will close overnight beginning Tuesday for paving work related to ongoing construction of the city’s new Senior and Therapeutic Recreation Center.
The road will be closed from W. Reynolds Road to the Shillito Aquatic Center from 7 p.m. on September 8 to 7 a.m. on September 9. Intermittent road closures will continue on September 9 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., and daytime visitors are advised to drive slowly through construction areas and expect 15-minute delays.
Flaggers will be stationed to manage traffic flow. The paving is necessary to construct a new entrance for the $24 million Senior and Therapeutic Recreation Center, which city officials broke ground on in November 2024. Additional paving work is planned for early October.
The 26,000-square-foot facility will serve seniors 55 and older as well as adults and children with disabilities. The new center will consolidate senior programming that has grown beyond the capacity of Lexington’s existing senior centers, which have experienced dramatic increases in participation since opening an expanded main center at Idle Hour Park in 2016. More than 3,200 seniors currently participate in programming at city senior centers, with waiting lists for popular exercise classes.
The Shillito Park location was chosen because many seniors live on the city’s south side, near the Fayette Mall area. The facility will also house the city’s Therapeutic Recreation program, which celebrated 70 years in 2025 after beginning in 1955. The program currently operates out of multiple locations across the city.
The center is expected to open later this year, pending completion of construction and other site improvements.
Sources
- LFUCG General News
- City of Lexington information about the new Senior and Therapeutic Recreation Center
- WEKU report on the Senior and Therapeutic Recreation Center plans
This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from LFUCG General News, enriched with 2 web searches. The original source is available at https://www.lexingtonky.gov/news/shillito-park-road-closed-overnight-paving-work.
