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Brooklyn Center Approves Funding Options to Renovate, Expand Community Center:

City officials in Brooklyn Center are moving forward with a plan to renovate and expand its community center and build a year-round adventure park. The total cost to build these amenities would be $135 million. Brooklyn Center has put in a request for state bonding dollars to help pay for the project, but the city also wants to implement a sales tax increase of 0.5 percent. That sales tax would raise $55 million over 20 years. This week, the Brooklyn Center City Council approved a resolution to ask the state… Read More