CANYON, TEXAS -- Palo Duro Canyon State Park will be getting a new group recreation facility. The facility is the first of it's kind in Texas State Parks. The groundbreaking ceremony was held for the facility Friday morning. The new stone-clad facility will be 5,200 square feet with meeting and dining hall space, restrooms and a commercial kitchen perfect for wedding receptions and family reunions. The Mack Dick Group Pavilion will be a state of the art facility that will have a seating capacity of 150 and have multi-media technology. The building of the facility has been made possible through contributions from the Amarillo Area Foundation and local businessman Mack Dick, of whom the building is named after.
"In these difficult times we have found very few dollars available for capital development in fact, we have not had capital development dollars in state parks in many many years. Had it not be for the generosity of the private sector and forming these partnerships these types of projects simply would not be possible," said Brent Leisure, Texas State Park Director.
"Obviously the Panhandle people are the ones that have to do it first because we are so proud of our Canyon, so proud of our people and so proud of what we have in the whole Texas Panhandle and this is really presented setting project," said Mark Bivins, Former Co-Chair of Amarillo Area Foundation.
The construction process is expected to start in the next six months with completion hopefully by 2013.
