The City of Garnett scored a big gift from the City of Overland Park. Three huge, 85 by 45 foot outdoor steel pavilions. Overland Park donated the all-steel structures on the condition the recipient would take them down and transport them at their own expense. Anderson County Development Agency Grant Writer Jessica Mills told city and county commissioners this week a local crew would begin disassembling the three 85×45 foot structures December 9th and had to be completed by January 18.
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 said funds were in place for the deconstruction and transport of the structures – estimated at some $60,000 – but as of yet a budget hadn’t been planned for reconstruction at the Garnett sites. She says estimates for similar construction had come in between $63,000 and $85,000, but those were metal and wood truss components – not all steel. Overland Park constructed at the site in 1991.
