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10A • January 16, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Conference center to build new kitchen, dining room Construction will begin this year on phase one of project By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette A long-planned renova- tion at the Cannon Beach Christian Conference Cen- ter will begin this year and run through 2019. The center’s kitchen and dining room, housed in a World War II-era build- ing east of North Spruce Street, will be torn down and rebuilt as a larger, more modern complex. The new building won’t sit in the old footprint but will overlap with it, taking up a portion of the adjacent yard. The existing kitchen no longer has enough space to prepare more than 380,000 meals per year (at least 1,000 per day), Executive Director Jeff Carlsen said. Nor does the dining room, “originally built to hold about 150 guests,” give the center much room to accommodate its growing demand. The conference center serves more than 17,000 guests a year, including more than 150 church or Christian groups. “We pack that building out. We’re elbow-to-elbow with people now,” Carlsen said. “It will make it be a much more positive expe- rience with folks sharing meals and sharing round the tables.” With the second-story dorms included, the existing building has 12,327 square feet. Its successor, whose XSSHU ÀRRU DOVR ZLOO IHD- ture a conference room, is designed for 16,509 square feet — a 34 percent increase in space. With the added space, the new complex will give the conference center more room to continue doing what it has done for decades: pro- vide instruction, hospitality and recreation for guests ERICK BENGEL PHOTO ERICK BENGEL PHOTO Jeff Carlsen, executive director of the Cannon Beach Christian Conference Center, tours the center’s current 5,200-square-foot dining room. The new dining room will be 6,700 square feet. The Christian Conference Center’s existing dining room (pictured) lies just east of where part of the new kitchen and dining complex will sit. Any trees removed will be replaced. and spiritual seekers. Unlike the current kitch- en and dining room, built in 1948, the new complex will be up to code. It will also have better technology and audio-visual equipment for conferences, presentations, banquets and other gather- ings, Carlsen said. ‘Old as the hills’ The construction is scheduled to happen in two phases. Phase one (2015-16) will involve building the new kitchen and phase two (2017-19), the dining room. The time line is tentative, however, and may be ex- tended, depending on vol- unteers’ schedules. A design review permit application may be sub- mitted this spring, Carlsen said. If that gets approved on time, the ground work may start before the center’s summer conference season begins in June, he added. As construction begins, some trees near the cur- rent complex may need to be removed; they will be replaced in the site plan, Carlsen said. A rock struc- ture that has “historic and sentimental value” to the center will be relocated. Except for some dou- ble-pane windows, air con- ditioning units and pieces of kitchen equipment, the cen- ter will recycle very few of the original building’s mate- rials, he said. “There’s not much to save, to be quite honest with you,” he said. Most of what constitutes the current building is “old as the hills and completely worn out.” The center had to fumi- gate the building several years ago because of a pow- derpost beetle infestation. Carlsen estimates the total cost will fall between $2.8 and $3.5 million, he said. Volunteers Founded in 1945, the Christian Conference Cen- ter’s sprawling campus comprises several dozen buildings, most of which were built between the 1950s and 1970s. “In recent years, we’ve been having to replace them,” Carlsen said, adding that the new complex will be more expensive than pre- vious projects but “in many ways, no different.” Historically, the center ERICK BENGEL PHOTO From left: Danielle, a bakery assistant, Tim and Ben, two kitchen assistants (last names withheld) prepare food in the Christian Conference Center’s World War II-era kitchen. More than 380,000 meals are prepared in this space every year, Executive Director Jeff Carlsen said. has funded the construc- tion of its buildings entire- ly through donations rath- er than borrowed money, he said. It also tries to rely as much as possible on local subcontractors and vol- unteer labor. The use of volunteers is expected to save the center more than $300,000 on this latest project, he said. 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