{"id":204046,"date":"2026-03-24T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204046\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:33:07","slug":"council-approves-feasibility-study-for-aging-community-center-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204046\/","title":{"rendered":"Council approves feasibility study for aging Community Center | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During last week\u2019s Village Council meeting, a resolution to select the firm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berrydunn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berry, Dunn, McNeil and Parker<\/a> for a Key Biscayne Community Center assessment, audit and feasibility study, not to exceed $215,100, passed by a 6-0 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Parks and Recreation Director Todd Hofferberth explained that the data-driven analysis will get the best of what the center has to offer, noting that 20 years ago, &#8220;spinning was the big thing&#8221; in fitness, and now some of the components cater to seniors and those with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"LS IMG_1593.jpeg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1421\" height=\"1458\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Todd Hofferberth in front of a Village of Key Biscayne logo sign.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Islander News archives<\/p>\n<p>The analysis process will take 10 months with community engagement, of course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The Community Center is) one of the gems of the county but it&#8217;s showing its age,\u201d Village Manager Steve Williamson said. \u201cThis is what Todd is trying to do and do it better (for) the future of the center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The center opened in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Nancy Stoner said this analysis will be valuable because back in 2004, racquetball was the sport of choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of money and a lot of space could have been devoted to a sport that now has (little) demand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Money for the cost of the analysis already had been approved as part of the latest FY 2026 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During last week\u2019s Village Council meeting, a resolution to select the firm of Berry, Dunn, McNeil and Parker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6304,93800,80196,126,1356,123,125,124,25521,127],"class_list":["post-204046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-community-center","tag-feasibility","tag-feasibility-study","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-community-center","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nancy-stoner","tag-village-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}