The City of Garnett has scored huge outdoor steel pavilions, courtesy of the City of Overland Park. The pavilions were used for it’s farmer’s market. Overland Park donated the all-steel structures, on the condition the recipient would take them down and transport them at their own expense and recently announced Garnett won the proposal. Anderson County Development Agency Grant Writer, Jessica Mills, says a local crew would begin disassembling the three 85X45 foot structures December 9th and had to be completed by January 18th, per the agreement. One of the structures is expected to be used for the Garnett Farmers Market in an area near the Garnett Rec Center. Another will be used to create an outdoor event space at the Garnett Airport and possibly one placed near the county fairgrounds in Lake Garnett Park. Mills says funds were in place for the deconstruction and transport of the structures, estimated at $60,000, but as of yet a budget hadn’t been planned for reconstruction at the Garnett sites.
Overland Park wanted to get rid of the structures to build a new indoor farmers market space and facility with expanded restrooms, additional seating and other improvements. The steel pavilions were constructed at the site in 1991.
