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Facelifts are underway for these Mooresville parks and municipal buildings



Turf installation at Mazeppa Park fields will improve availability for local and traveling sports events. /Courtesy Town of Mooresville

MOORESVILLE – Keeping pace with “quality of life” and “top destination” accolades the town has earned – aligned with growth patterns that accompany a desirable location – Mooresville has invested more than $33 million in seven major facilities projects, with all but one completed, or scheduled for completion, before the end of 2022.

Two projects—the Mooresville Fire Department’s Fire-Rescue Training Center and Station 6—opened earlier this year. Four – Police Department headquarters, Skate Park, West Side Library and Mazeppa Park turf conversion – are in progress with targeted completion this year, and Liberty Park Phase 2 is due to be finished next summer.

Here is a town project update:

Police Headquarters

The department plans to relocate this fall to a $19.048 million facility at the intersection of Brawley School Road and U.S. 21. The 50,000-square-foot facility will provide additional communications, evidence and holding cell areas, a designated K9 building and enhanced community room space for meetings and special events. The facility more than doubles the department’s headquarters space, providing capacity for future growth. Most exterior work is complete, perimeter fencing is being installed, landscaping has begun and interior finish work continues.

Library West Branch 

The renovated building at 614 Brawley School Road scheduled to open this fall will include a drive-through for book pickups, small group study rooms, meeting rooms and all-age programming. Grant funding has provided for cardholder early/late-hours quiet-time access – one of the first public libraries in North Carolina to implement this feature – and self-service check in/out kiosks. Interior work is complete and exterior touches have begun on the $897,700 project.

Skate Park

After input from the skate community, improvements on the Town’s Skate Park at 748 W. Iredell Ave. began in February and are scheduled to be finished this fall. The $2.841 million expansion and upgrade includes bowl and street features, a racing-themed design, restroom facilities and athletic field lighting. The facility will be 40,000 square feet, making it one of the largest skate parks in the region.

Mazeppa Park turf

Partnering with the Convention and Visitors Bureau and, more recently, The Charlotte Independence Soccer Club, the town is installing artificial turf on Mazeppa Park fields to provide an all-weather playing surface for sports, increasing usability for local, regional and travel sports leagues. The combined cost of the multi-phase turf-conversion project is $2.4 million with completion expected in September.

Liberty Park Phase 2 

Investments in Liberty Park revitalization have created a downtown destination, with Phase 1 providing a concert band shell and Veteran’s promenade, and the in-progress $7,930,221 Phase 2 adding a three-tier playground, interactive fountain, picnic shelter, greenway connection, a new restroom and concession stand building and a covered basketball court that could be used for events like the seasonal Farmers’ Markets.

For more details about the projects, email Chris Wyckoff at cwyckoff@mooresvillenc.gov.

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