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Straban OKs Elks club plans for new facility Social club will move from downtown Gettysburg home of nearly 70 years to Camp Letterman Drive. By ERIN NEGLEY Evening Sun Reporter The Elks of Gettysburg will trade their home of nearly 70 years for a new building with sweeping vistas and more parking. Straban Township supervisors approved land development plans Monday for the new Elks site on Camp Letterman Drive. The social club plans to start construction behind the Blockbuster Video in September and move in May 2006, said Rob Reed, vice-president.
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Elks Lodge gives its hall a major facelift By Dan Champagne, Record-Journal staff WALLINGFORD — On Jan. 30, 1955, the Wallingford Lodge of Elks No. 1365 held the grand opening of its hall in what is now the American Red Cross building at 144 S. Main St. Fifty years later to the day, the Elks Lodge will hold a grand opening to unveil its newly renovated hall at 148 S. Main St., where the lodge has been located for more than 30 years. Renovations began on the hall in August and are almost complete, said Past Exalted Ruler Walter Polnar. "Everything has been replaced," Polnar said. "From the floors to the ceilings to the walls, everything was ripped out and put back in." A new entrance leads into the hallway covered with a fresh coat of tan paint that you can still smell. Two sets of French doors serve as the entrance to the newly remodeled hall, which holds a new bar and a 560 square-foot dance floor.
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Ground broken for new Provo Elks Lodge Todd Hollingshead DAILY HERALD The annual Thanksgiving dinner provided by the Provo Elks for area homeless people won't be at the 35-year-old Provo Elks Lodge at 1000 S. University Ave. this year. Apparently it's too hard to host a meal when there is no building to eat it in. Instead, the meal will be served at the brand new, $2. 5 million state-of-the-art Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the U.S.A. Lodge at 1000 S. University Ave. where ground was broken Monday. Members of the Provo Elks gathered on top of a field of dirt Monday afternoon as Mayor Lewis K. Billings led a group of Elks in a gold-shovel groundbreaking ceremony just west of the existing building. "They are moving forward for the future," Billings said. "It's hard. There are some who want to stick it out, keep the old. But they've decided to move on and embrace the new." The 22,000-square-foot building will include a few improvements from the existing structure, including outdoor patio spaces, a grand staircase, a large atrium area and a restaurant with a dining facility open to the public.
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Commissioners yet to reach agreement in regard to Elks relocation costs Elks contend costs exceed $500,000, county officials disagree By RENEE RICHARDSON Senior Reporter Moving the Elks organization out of its building is going to cost Crow Wing County. The question now is how much. Commissioners heard a cost proposal Tuesday and talked about legal options to expand west of the Judicial Center going up on Laurel Street. Brainerd attorney Tom Borden is representing the Elks. In a letter to the county, Borden listed the Brainerd Elks relocation costs at $554,712. Line items include $70,000 as loss of income and a number of entries at $25,000 for construction costs.
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County will pay Elks' relocation costs CROW WING COUNTY BOARD By RENEE RICHARDSON Senior Reporter The Elks Lodge will receive $100,000 from Crow Wing County toward relocation costs as the organization moves from Fourth Street South in Brainerd. Tuesday Crow Wing County Commissioners approved the expenditure, which will be deducted from a settlement or court-ordered remedy. Crow Wing County filed a petition in district court in September for eminent domain proceedings to obtain the Elks building site on South Fourth Street across from the courthouse. The land will be used for the new county jail. The Elks lease space in the building. They are planning to move to a portion of the Moose Club in Brainerd.
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Laconia Elks proposal opposed in Gilford By RICH BERGERON Staff Writer GILFORD -- The Laconia Elks Club went before the planning board Monday night to propose a 6,000-square-foot, single-story building on property at 17 Sugarbush Lane. The board members present voiced opposition to the site plan and the proposed parking situation on a tract that is compromised by wetlands. Engineer Paul Fluet said he tweaked the design to minimize the wetlands impact. The current design features 1,500 square feet of wetlands impact. With a capacity of 276 people for the building and only 44 parking spaces available as part of the plan, the Elks will need a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals. Planning Board Chair Polly Sanfacon and member Carolyn Scattergood both voiced their concerns about the parking. Despite claims from club officials that the establishment has been around for 100 years and never had a problem with parking, other board members agreed there was a lack of needed parking.
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County, Elks agree on relocation costs By RENEE RICHARDSON Senior Reporter Crow Wing County commissioners reached a settlement with the Brainerd Elks for relocation costs. The county board approved an additional $150,000 payment to move the Elks club. The county previously paid $100,000 to help the Elks get started with relocation costs. Crow Wing County filed a petition in district court in September for eminent domain proceedings to obtain the Elks building site on South Fourth Street across from the courthouse. The land will be used for the new county jail. The limited liability corporation, LLC 615, owns the building and leases space to the county's planning and zoning offices and the Elks. Commissioners had set aside closed meeting time to talk about the settlement, but decided to keep the meeting open and conduct their business in public. All relocation costs associated with the county's building project are concluded.
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Home builder gets OK for 19 houses Bob Goldsborough Published June 23, 2005 WHEATON -- The City Council this week voted to approve a plan to build 19 single-family houses on Wheaton's far north side. Yorkville-based Windham Homes originally had proposed building 30 attached town homes on the unincorporated property it owns on the east side of Papworth Street, immediately south of Geneva Road. The developer later modified its plan to 22 single-family houses, and in order to win council support, subsequently reduced the plan to 19 houses served by a newly built private street called Windham Court. As part of the plan, Windham will relocate the Elks Lodge, to a nearly 1-acre property on Geneva Road that is immediately north of the new subdivision. The council voted to annex the land on which the houses will be constructed. However, city leaders decided to hold off on annexing the Elks Lodge's new property as long as the lodge possesses a liquor license.
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Dover to buy Elks building -- Lodge, parking lot in deal By JOE MIZER, T-R Staff Writer In what Mayor Richard Homrighausen hopes will be the first step toward a long-term goal, the city of Dover has reached an agreement to buy the Elks Lodge building at 215 N. Wooster Ave. Homrighausen announced the deal at Tuesday night’s Dover City Council meeting, noting that the city will buy the lodge building and its rear parking lot for $150,000. The current lodge building is located on a 49 1/2- by 198-foot lot, and its rear parking lot, which measures 49 1/2- by 99 feet, is a portion of two lots. The mayor said the Elks will retain ownership of the remainder of the two rear lots, an area that measures 99- by 148 1/2 feet, “for the express purpose of constructing a new single-story Elks Lodge.” Other details of the agreement call for the Elks to build its new lodge or show evidence of the intent to build within three years of the date of closing. In the interim, the Elks will lease part of the current building, such as the grill room downstairs and a banquet room and kitchen upstairs, until the new lodge is constructed. The remainder of the building will be cordoned off for three to five years
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Elks Lodge Gilford facility proposal hits another snag By GORDON FRASER Staff Writer gfraser@citizen.com GILFORD 014 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge 876 collided with another roadblock on its path to a new facility Tuesday. The drainage ditch running beside Route 11A may be a year-round waterway, which would require a 100-foot setback between the ditch and the proposed building. Current plans place the Elks facility 70 feet from the ditch. "If the hundred-foot (setback) is put into place, we won't be able to use this land," said attorney Patrick Wood, who is representing the Elks Lodge.
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Elks propose changes in home By STEVE COLLINS, The Bristol Press07/07/2005 Email to a friend Voice your opinion Printer-friendly BRISTOL -- Four years after preservationists fought in court to prevent demolition of the historic Chauncey Jerome house at the foot of Main Street, the Bristol Elks Club is looking to make some changes to its longtime home. The group is seeking a green light from city land-use boards to put a small addition on the west side of the 1832 Greek Revival house and to make the first floor more accessible to the handicapped.
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Elks in uphill battle for new home By GORDON FRASER Staff Writer gfraser@citizen.com PLANNING BOARD Chair Polly Sanfacon, left, and board member Richard Sonya, center, look on while engineer Paul Fluet of Fluet Engineering traces the path of the disputed watercourse on design maps. The board must rule on whether the watercourse runs year-round and requires a 100-foot setback between it and the proposed Elks Lodge. (Gordon Fraser/Citizen Photo) GILFORD — The eight inches of water standing between the Elks and their new home may be enough to prevent the development they've been trying to build since March of 2004. The Planning Board Thursday conducted a site walk to examine the watercourse running along the edge of Route 11A. Wading through waist-high grass, board members, accompanied by Paul Fluet of Fluet Engineering and attorney Pat Wood, both of whom represent the Elks, found the watercourse that has been the focus of recent debate.
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New Elks Lodge in Provo DAILY HERALD <01 1 byline> Nick Nelson Behind the pile of rubble that was the Provo Elks Lodge at 1000 S. University Ave. sits a slab of concrete that will soon support a two-story, 22,000-square-foot lodge. The new building will be less than a third the size of the one it replaces -- reflecting the steep decline of membership at the local lodge during the past decade -- but lodge secretary Jerry Cross said the $2.3 million project will be impressive, nonetheless. Cross said visitors to the new lodge, which is scheduled to be completed in late November, will first be met by a large memorial plaque dedicated to U.S. war veterans. The first floor of the lodge will house a large entrance, a vast lounge area and some office space.
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Elks hope to win approval for new lodge in Gilford By ROGER AMSDEN Union Leader Correspondent GILFORD 014 Nearly a year and a half after selling its downtown Laconia property, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge 876 is still trying to find permanent shelter. Currently operating out of leased space at One Gilford Place that is so small that it can't accommodate anywhere near the club's full membership, the lodge is hoping it will win its case before the zoning board of adjustment tonight so that it can get on with plans to develop the three-plus-acre site near Route 11-A that it bought last November.
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Elks are moved in and ready for visitors Longtime Ventura lodge plans an open house on Saturday By Karen Hibdon, khibdon@VenturaCountyStar.com September 29, 2005 For 78 years, members of Ventura Elks Lodge No. 1430 hunkered down in a stately five-story lodge in downtown Ventura. The facility was a symbol of the longevity of the fraternal order and also its philanthropic work over the years. But it was also falling down around them. Advertisement Selling the historic building "was our salvation," said Cliff Zepf, chairman of the Elks board of directors. "The building was destroying us; we couldn't maintain it."
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Elks' wait for new building requires patience By KELLY CUCULIANSKY Staff Writer Last update: November 25, 2005 EDGEWATER -- Patience will have to guide members of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks as they wait for the day to break ground for a new building. It's a matter of submitting, reviewing and resubmitting plans to the state and city, until construction can begin at the Edgewater site at 820 W. Park Ave. "It's not as quick as our members would like, of course; however, I really can't fault anybody," said Treasurer Jack Parker. "I can't fault the process." It's uncertain when the city will give the final approval but plans are being reviewed and being turned over at the rate they are submitted, Parker said. Before the city can approve the site plan, the St. Johns River Water Management District must approve the plan for storm water runoff. Tentatively, the 8,000-square-feet Elks Lodge will be done by the fall of next year and will include a large multipurpose room, a restaurant and lounge.
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Elks plan new life for old funeral home Fraternal group moving to new home in Scotia to be closer to the people its members serve By DAN HIGGINS, Staff writer First published: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 SCOTIA -- A fraternal organization is moving, partly in an effort to be closer to the community it serves. Advertisement The 15-year-old Scotia-Glenville Elks Lodge hopes to close on a building at 176 Sacandaga Road in Scotia within the next several months. The lodge's leader, Michael Woodman, said the timing depends in part on the regional Elks organization, which must approve all real estate transactions.
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Elks Club plans to build facility Thursday, April 20, 2006 By DAVID A. VALLETTE dvallette@repub.com MONTAGUE - Jason E. Clark, now 66, remembers going to the races as a boy, watching stock cars slide their way around a dirt oval that was the Rhythm Inn Race Track off Millers Falls Road. Now Clark and other members of the Montague Elks are seeking to buy the former race track property, about 11 acres, and build a new Elks home. Clark said the facility will include "the largest and finest banquet facility in Franklin County."
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Just as the smart little pig built his house out of bricks to withstand the huffing and puffing of the big bad wolf, the Pensacola Beach Elks are putting their might into a new lodge. The three-story structure taking shape on Pensacola Beach Road is made of precast which is assembled on site.
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Elks to build lodge downtown The club has bought a site at the corner of Hoyt Avenue and California Street in Everett that is now occupied by a burned building. By Eric Fetters Herald Writer EVERETT - The Everett Elks are planning a new lodge at a downtown corner that went up in flames last year. Elks Lodge 479 recently completed its purchase of 2802 Hoyt Ave., where a burned building that previously housed a blood plasma collection business has sat vacant since January 2005. According to county records, the club paid $310,000 for the site.
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