SEGUIN, Texas -- Guadalupe County commissioners voted Wednesday to move forward with plans to bring a future Guadalupe County Veterans Outreach Services Center to life.
• Building would be 8,500 square feet
• Cost estimated at $1.5 million
• Serve 70,000 veterans
County Judge Kyle Kutscher said a veterans center similar to the one planned has been a dream of the county for a long time.
"When you look at that project just from the outside, it kind of gives you goosebumps," Kutscher said.
The 8,500-square-foot project is estimated at $1.5 million and would be housed in an old county hospital building at 205 E Weinert St. that's been vacant for years. The facility could serve the nearly 70,000 veterans in the surrounding counties, so veterans would no longer have to travel to San Antonio or Austin to get help.
"Everybody sees this as really the gathering place where all these services could all be one. Everybody could come together instead of duplicating services. We would really be able to provide something better than what's out there today,” said Kutscher.
Kutscher said he wants the future center to be a homelike environment.
"And it would look like an inviting place where they not only could get help, but they belong. A place where they could gather and feel comfortable around peers that have been through the same things that they've been through," Kutscher said.
Following the vote to proceed with plans, recruiting resource partnerships and securing funding will now begin.