While it seemed the nearly decade-long saga of building a new Park City senior center had finally come to an end, plans are once again in flux.
The city had put out a request for proposal last January for a combination senior center and affordable housing project at the current, cramped location in Old Town, on Woodside Avenue. By July, it had selected a developer. The project was meant to address two major problems: lack of space for the city’s growing senior population to hang out and meet others, plus a dearth of affordable housing.
But now, facing a multi-million dollar funding gap — and ending up with options that called for either fewer parking options and less facility space than seniors wanted, or smaller number of new affordable units — officials are considering another route: a parking lot just down the street…