Submitted photoThe renovation process has begun as volunteers with the Lakes Center for Youth and Families (formerly LAYSB) prepare to move into a new space in the Town Square building.
In 2013, after 20 years of occupancy in the same space, the Lakes Area Youth Service Bureau was given notice from the city of Forest Lake that an option to sell the group’s city-owned building was being exercised. There was no specific timeline, but Executive Director Jeanne Walz knew that time was running short.
“This was going to be the biggest thing that has ever happened to us, and so we wanted to make sure that we did it right,” she said. “We began exploring options to either build or rent or possibly purchase.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
In September 2016, LAYSB was told that it would need to be gone from its current space at 244 N. Lake St. by March 1.
“The key was to find
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