The commission discussed the plans for the Midtown Building, since the new Sabetha Health and Wellness Center (SHWC) is set to open in June. It was previously discussed to tear down the Midtown Building in order not to compete with the SHWC.
“I get not competing on exercise because we are charging for that, but they are not offering a free gym for kids or people that want to just go play basketball,” City Commissioner Nick Aberle said. “They are offering a pay per use gym. They just want to blow off some steam, and we don’t have a place in town to do that if we tear Midtown down because the city hall gym does not offer that anymore.”
Aberle said that — with so many streets that need to be fixed in Sabetha — he can’t imagine “spending $100,000 to tear something down” that could wait another five years.
(Read more: Sabetha Herald)