By Rusty Bradshaw

Independent Newsmedia

The Vintage Vehicle Club of Sun City will soon have a place to call home — at least temporarily.

The former Recreation Centers of Sun City Skilled Trades Department building near Lakeview Recreation Center, 10626 W. Thunderbird Blvd., is being prepared for use by the club, according to Chris Herring, RCSC assistant general manager.

Vintage Vehicle Club of Sun City members with a car they raffled as a fundraiser at the beginning of their campaign to get a building for their activities.

“The demolition of the interior of the old Skilled Trades Department building is about 80 percent complete,” he reported to the RCSC board Jan. 25.

When demolition is complete, the contractors will hand it back to RCSC to complete painting, minor electrical and plumbing work, and fencing additions and repairs. The contractors are Ken McIntyre Construction, American fence and the RCSC Skilled Trades Department, and the project cost is $24,475.

The RCSC Skilled Trades Department moved last year to a new building on Union Hills Drive just east of 104th Avenue just off the playing area of the Willowbrook/Willowcreek Golf Course, 10600 N. Boswell Blvd..

Vehicle club members lobbied RCSC officials for a space of its own for several years. RCSC officials considered a maintenance building on the South Golf Course on 105th Avenue just north of Peoria Avenue. But complaints from residents from the Fairway condos in that area ended consideration.

Vehicle club members then lobbied for the new building, 10415 W. Grand Ave. But after the ad hoc Long Range Planning Committee recommended other uses the club was again in search of a home.

RCSC officials approved the use of the former Skilled Trades building on a temporary measure while a permanent solution is studied.