The Village of Lindenhurst's renovations to the Rainbow Center are continuing, as the Board just approved the bid to redo the baths at Tuesday night'a meeting.
The project - which involves a to gut of the baths on the community side of the Center - will be done by Up-Rite of Smithtown at a cost of $65,800. It'll be funded by Federal Community Development Block Grant funds.
"They need to be gutted and redone," Village Administrator Shawn Cullinane told Lindenhurst Patch on Wednesday.
In addition to that project the corner on the North side - or the Western wall, as the Village calls it - will also be rebuilt.
"There's cement block there that needs to be replaced," Cullinane said. "We're going to rebuild that whole corner. It's a structural repair."
The bid for that project was also approved at the May 7 meeting. LoCascio Enterprises of East Islip will do the work at a cost of $29,837. The project will be paid with funding from the 2009 Community Center Bond.
Both projects are ready to go and will get underway soon at the Center.
Prior to this the Village installed solar panels, a new roof and new lighting.
And the next step, after these two projects are complete, is to look at revamping some of the interior spaces, though there are no specifics about what that would entail yet.
"We've been making cost-efficient repairs at the Center, which is now about 70 years old," Cullinane noted.
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