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This is a conceptual floor plan image for the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners' proposed Century Community Shelter project located in Century, Florida. The floor plan depicts the layout of a new multi-purpose facility and evacuation shelter to be constructed at the site of the old Century High School Gym building at 720 East Hecker Road. The design illustrates the spatial organization and functional areas of the facility, which will serve as a hurricane-resistant shelter for residents of Century and provide critical services during disaster events.

The facility is being developed as part of CDBG-DR funding and will include retrofitting, hardening, and elevating structures to meet critical facilities mitigation requirements. Beyond emergency sheltering, the facility is designed to support community services including food and water distribution, supply storage, and serve as a dissemination point for recovery information and community health updates. The project requires professional architectural and engineering design services and limited construction administration from qualified firms to transform the existing gymnasium site into a disaster-resilient community facility that addresses the Town's current lack of hurricane-force wind-resistant shelter infrastructure.