Saturday, February 25, 2012

Property Donated for New Viroqua Library


Gundersen Lutheran donates former clinic site toward Viroqua library. (Vernon County Broadcaster, 2/24/2012)  

Excerpt: The donation, through a deed restriction, allows for the construction of a new library on the site of the clinic. The old clinic building has been vacant since its offices moved into the Viroqua Area Medical Office Building in 2006. 

The clinic property, valued at $300,000-$350,000, is to be part of the Viroqua Center, a multipurpose community center that will include a public library and a civic/business training center that is attached to Viroqua's Western Technical College campus. Preliminary designs on the Viroqua Center have been completed by the architect PSA Dewberry of Monroe, Wis., and the project is estimated to cost $5-$8 million. 

Kathy Hanson of the Viroqua McIntosh Memorial Library Board said the library has been working since 2008 to address its need for more space and to make its facility more accessible to the community. Mike Pieper of Western Technical College said the donation to Western's Foundation includes a three-year deed restriction that earmarks the use of the clinic land for a library. If the library were not built on the site, Western could develop the site into space it shared with the community, Pieper said.  

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