Windows for Freedom Park Center

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Windows for Freedom Park Center. 

Freedom Park Center is a new community-service facility, serving veterans, seniors and youth in St. Croix County. Thanks to generous support from Cardinal Glass, we are well on our way to our goal of $75,000, so we can install windows this summer.

A partnership of VFW Post 10818, the New Richmond Senior Center and the City of New Richmond, Freedom Park Center will provide veterans, seniors and youth in St. Croix County and Western Wisconsin with much-needed services in education, recreation, health and wellness.

Who are we? VFW Post 10818 has become synonymous with community service. Over the past 12 years, the Post has consistently been recognized as an All-American Post and awarded with the National Outstanding Community Service award in recognition of its many services to the community. 

Why Freedom Park Center? Prior to 2017, many of New Richmond’s nonprofit service organizations were housed in the city’s central Community Commons building. In late 2016 the groups were notified that the structure would be demolished within the year. All were forced to move to separate facilities and faced higher costs, compromising the services they provide to populations in need.

Whose idea was it? To address this challenge, VFW Post 10818 proposed the idea of a new community center as a permanent home for the displaced organizations. The proposal gained immediate support from community leaders and since that time has been enthusiastically endorsed by representatives of the city of New Richmond, legislators and community businesses.

Where is it? Freedom Park Center is located in an attractive lakefront park on Highway 64, the main artery in New Richmond connecting Minnesota with central and northern Wisconsin. Overlooking soccer and football fields, walking trails and picnic areas, the 17,400 square-foot facility has three major sections – a Veterans Center, a Senior Center, and a Community Event Center – centered around a commercial kitchen, classrooms and offices.

Who’s building Freedom Park Center? Over the past three years, over 750 military personnel have worked on the construction, through the military’s Innovative Readiness Training Program. This unique partnership provides skilled military personnel who work with local contractors at no cost to the project. (VFW Post 10818 is one of only three VFW posts in the U.S. to have an IRT partnership for building construction, and it is the largest IRT project of any kind in the state of Wisconsin.) Local partners include Derrick Building Solutions, Countryside Plumbing and Heating, County Materials, Simon Electric and many others, all working in concert with New Richmond city officials.

What's our vision? Freedom Park Center will be unique: a major, permanent community resource for New Richmond and St. Croix County, serving all of Western Wisconsin.

Please give generously to help complete

Freedom Park Center!

Visit freedomparkcenter.org for more information.