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Cooks Corner complex getting $750,000 revamp

The Tom Carter Memorial Gymnasium at Cooks Corner — originally part of the campus of an all-Black high school — is expected to receive air conditioning this coming spring for the first time in its history. The 80-plus-year-old gym is still used by the county’s Parks and Recreation Department athletes. Its revamp is just a part of a renovation project planned for the gym and adjoining Cooks Corner Office Complex building. (Photo by Larry Chowning)

by Larry Chowning – 

The Cooks Corner Office Complex (CCOC) at Cooks Corner awaits an estimated $750,000 renovation, which is expected to begin in spring 2021. The bid process will start in late January 2021, said Middlesex County Administrator Matt Walker at the Dec. 1 board of supervisors meeting.

The renovation of the CCOC building was outlined in a Sept. 25, 2019 “Cooks Corner Office Complex-Renovation Program” report prepared by Bay Design Group of Urbanna. The report stated there will be 10 upper window replacements in the gym along with two exterior entrance replacements, and full lighting replacement.

The Social Services conference room windows will be replaced and the full HVAC system repair/upgrade will be part of the job for the main building and a first-time air-conditioning system for the gym will be installed…

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