Surprise opens a 35,000 sq ft resource center on Sept. 3

The Surprise Community Resource Center holds its ribbon cutting Sept. 3 at 10 a.m., followed by an open house at 11 a.m., at 12641 W. Santa Fe Dr. in the Original Town Site at Hollyhock Street. The 35,000-square-foot building unites what were once separate homes for the city's senior center, resource center and Hollyhock Library, and adds health and wellness programs, Head Start classrooms, workforce development, housing assistance, veteran services and after-school youth programs. It serves the whole Northwest Valley.