{"id":409440,"date":"2026-09-24T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409440\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:20:07","slug":"tallahassees-second-senior-citizens-center-officially-opens-in-the-citys-northeast-quadrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409440\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee&#8217;s second senior citizens center officially opens in the city&#8217;s northeast quadrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee now has two full service senior citizen centers. Wednesday, Sept. 23 saw the grand opening of the new one on Welaunee Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The 40,000 square foot center has been under construction since mid-2024. Hundreds of people turned out for Wednesday&#8217;s opening ceremonies during which the city&#8217;s Senior Services Manager Ceola Grant welcomed the large crowd and encouraged them to check out the new center&#8217;s many offerings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People can swing by and enjoy the comfortable social spaces, our double-size multi-purpose gym, six pickleball courts&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With that, the audience broke into enthusiastic cheers and applause.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the new center offers arts programs, lifelong learning courses and all kinds of travel opportunities. A full open house is set to take place on October eighth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee now has two full service senior citizen centers. Wednesday, Sept. 23 saw the grand opening of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-409440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409440","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=409440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}