The Wellness Center inside the Pleasant Ridge Community Center will undergo renovations next month, including the removal of the drop ceiling; heating, ventilating and air-conditioning improvements; lighting improvements; a new rubber floor; and newly painted walls. The city expects the Wellness Center to be closed for the month of April while renovations take place.
By: Mike Koury | Woodward Talk | Published March 18, 2025
PLEASANT RIDGE — The Wellness Center in Pleasant Ridge’s Community Center is set to undergo some improvements next month.
At its March 11 meeting, the City Commission approved a $160,775 contract with Solomon Consulting Group to renovate the Wellness Center, located at 4 Ridge Road.
The renovation inside the Wellness Center includes, according to city documents, “removing the drop ceiling, reconfiguring the HVAC ducting, replacing lighting, replacing the rubber floor, painting the walls, and other maintenance work to address minor blemishes and imperfections that have accumulated over the years.”
City Manager James Breuckman stated during the meeting that this project is focused on refreshing the Wellness Center.
“If you’ve been to the Wellness Center, you’ve seen that the drop ceiling’s been removed,” he said. “The intention is to replace all of the mechanicals that are above the ceiling, make it so that it looks good and intentional with that drop ceiling removed. That requires redoing all of the lighting and electrical work.
“As the project was being scoped, we also included an allowance for replacing all of the rubber flooring that is in the Wellness Center and also in the small room,” he continued. “That was put in almost 10 years ago now and it was fine, but it’s worn, it’s weathered … it holds the salt. It’s never really lost its rubber smell. So, as we were doing this project, it was time to replace that as well.”
The city plans on closing the center for the month of April while the renovation project is ongoing. The hope is to reopen by the first week of May.
“A critical piece of the project was to be done before all of the spring and summer activities come into full motion at the community center,” Mayor Bret Scott told the Woodward Talk. He said that if the project wasn’t started now, Pleasant Ridge would have had to wait until the winter to commence the renovations.
Scott said the equipment in the center is all good and fully functional, but like other city assets, they need to go in and freshen the center’s appearance.
“The building has been maintained structurally. There were cosmetic items that needed improvement,” he said. “(We’re) also getting rid of televisions that no longer serve a function now that most people arrive with tablets or phones that give them that video content.”