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DAYTON — A new occasion center with a restaurant and occasion space will be constructed on the Dayton Rodeo Grounds with the support of a newly awarded state grant.
On Monday, the city of Dayton and the Dayton Neighborhood Club have been awarded a Location Iowa grant from the Iowa Financial Improvement Authority for improvements to the Dayton Oak Park Trails Rodeo and Events Center.
The $800,000 Location Iowa grant represents 34 % of the total project investment of $two,372,703, according to a press release from the IEDA.
“It’s going to be a neat location,” Dayton Mayor Dave Bills mentioned. “This will be a fantastic addition.”
Bills mentioned the aim is to enhance the website — which also incorporates the Oak Park Golf Course — and bring in extra guests as properly as providing the neighborhood extra solutions to use the space.
“It’ll be for weddings and birthday parties and what ever else we can post up there,” he mentioned. “A excellent location for the citizens from the surrounding neighborhood to have a good location to go and appreciate all the stuff we have up right here.”
The city’s premiere occasion, the annual Dayton Championship Rodeo, is held each and every Labor Day weekend and Bills mentioned he hopes to be in a position to host a dance in the new occasion center throughout the rodeo.
The restaurant, Bills mentioned, would give locals a different alternative for lunch and dinner.
The building of the new occasion center will coincide with the county’s bike trails project in Dayton, Bills mentioned. More than the final 3 years, Webster County Conservation has been operating on a county-wide bike trails project. In Dayton, the trail will run by means of the city and to the Oak Park and Rodeo Grounds region.
“It’s going to be a fantastic advantage for the folks who come to town and ride the bike trail to have locations to quit and cool off and get anything to drink or perhaps a tiny lunch,” Bills mentioned.
Bills mentioned he’s grateful for the assistance from the IEDA with this Location Iowa grant.
“It’s clearly made for smaller sized communities that want to develop and have an attraction and hopefully bring extra folks in from about the state of Iowa,” he mentioned.
Bills credited state Sen. Jesse Green, R-Boone, and Webster County Supervisor Mark Campbell for their assistance of these high quality of life improvement projects in Dayton.
Facts for the project are nevertheless getting nailed down, but Bills mentioned he hopes to have engineers operating on the plans prior to the finish of this year.
This was the seventh and final round of Location Iowa grant awards. The plan is a $115 million investment the state is creating to bolster the high quality of life in Iowa’s communities and attract guests and new residents to the state. In total, Location Iowa awards have been granted to 46 projects across the state. In an earlier round of grants, Webster County Conservation and the city of Fort Dodge have been awarded a $four million grant for the improvement of the River’s Edge Discovery Center.
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