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Summary

This project is planned as a Senior Activity Center in an effort to promote a community of active seniors. This project includes the construction of a new senior activity center to handle increased demand for senior programs in the northwest section of the City. The project site is a newly acquired 4½ acre property located between Martin Luther King Boulevard and NW 9th Street in Pompano Beach, Florida. The new Senior Activity Center will be designed to meet the City’s current and future needs. The City has contracted with Bermello Ajamil & Partners to provide professional architectural design and engineering consulting and related services. This is a General Obligation Bond project and is extremely important to the City. The activity center will be roughly 6,000-8,000 SF in size and will be certified LEED Silver at a minimum. This project is currently in the design development phase with an anticipated completion date of August 2021.

Website: http://pompanobeachfl.gov/pages/go_bond

Key facts

Main target group: Older people in general

Sector(s): Health, Information and communication

Desired outcome for older people:
Meet their basic needs

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Disasters and emergencies
  • Healthy behaviours (e.g. physical activity)
  • Inclusion

Contact details

Name: Brian Donovan

Email address: Brian.Donovan@copbfl.com

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Other

Other project lead: Parks and Recreation Program Director

How collaboration worked: Outreach will include formal meeting announcements, meeting locations and other pertinent actions that may be necessary to obtain the public’s attendance at said meetings.

Older people’s involvement: Older people were involved in the age-friendly practice at multiple or all stages

Details on older people’s involvement: Funding for this (and other projects at various locations throughout the City) were put to a vote via special election. All registered voters in Pompano Beach had the opportunity to participate at that stage. The planning phases of this project have and will include more public meetings to incorporate input from those directly and indirectly set to benefit from this project

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: Yes

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Looking back

Challenges:
The biggest challenge is collecting enough information to maximize the benefit to the community. This challenge was/ addressed by continuing to hold public meetings in an effort to facilitate a constant exchange of information to ensure that the plans are in line with the desires of the senior community.