KENAI, Alaska—
Construction is set to begin this spring on a new visitor center at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
The Peninsula Clarion (http://is.gd/HzjIPW) says the $6 million building is slated to open in the fall of 2014, and serve the approximately 1 million people who visit the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge each year.
Plans call for construction of a roughly 6,500-square-foot building, which will be situated closer to the refuge entrance.
The new center will have a spacious exhibit hall, an 80-person-capacity multi-purpose room, a sales lobby and three offices for volunteer staff. The total project cost, which includes a renovation of the current headquarters, is $9.9 million.
