The demolition of multiple Canyon Country buildings began Tuesday morning as Santa Clarita makes way for a new Canyon Country Community Center.

The Santa Clarita City Council invited the public to attend the demolition event Tuesday at the site of the future Canyon Country Community Center, located on the corner of Soledad Canyon Road and Sierra Highway.

“We are tearing down what will now become a nine acre, beautiful, fully incorporated modern community center that also serves in emergencies and disasters,” said Mayor Laurene Weste. “We will help build people’s careers with training, we will help children learn to read. This is a place that Canyon Country can call home, for fun, for work, and for embellishing themselves with new skills.”

As part of the Santa Clarita 2020 plan, the city of Santa Clarita is constructing a new, permanent Canyon Country Community Center to replace the existing one on Flying Tiger Drive.

The Santa Clarita City Council approved the Community Center concept plan in June 2016.

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Roughly ten businesses were or will be relocated to make way for the new Canyon Country Community Center, which will include a gym, computer technology room, teaching kitchen, community and fitness rooms, open play areas and outdoor walkways.

Toppers Pizza and Casa Vieja are the only businesses set to remain, and plan to become incorporated into the new center, according to city officials.

The city hopes to open the center by 2020. Once the new Canyon Country Community Center is completed, current temporary center, located at the intersection of Via Princessa and Sierra Hwy., will be decommissioned.

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