By Sara Beth Williams–
The Citrus Heights Community Center has been rebranded after 15 years in use.
New signage can be seen outside what was once known as the Citrus Heights Community Center, which is now called the Citrus Heights Event Center.
Rebranding the community center, which first opened in 2010, was one of the city’s goals discussed during a 2024 Strategic Planning Meeting.
“The name change to ‘Citrus Heights Event Center’ better reflects the facility’s role as a regionally recognized venue for various events,” Citrus Heights communications officer Marisa Brown said last week, adding that while many other community centers traditionally focus on offering recreational activities, the Citrus Heights Community Center doesn’t.
The center has served as a venue for thousands of events, including the annual Best of Citrus Heights hosted by the Citrus Heights Chamber of Commerce, several business expos, luncheons, a Ukraine Relief fundraising event, multiple annual spaghetti feed fundraisers, weddings, annual crab feeds, various town hall meetings, the memorial for fallen Sacramento Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver, and more.
According to the city, the cost of the name change is “minimal” since most of the changes to be made will be made electronically. The cost to replace the lettering for the physical monument in front of the building was $8,300. Wayfinding signage on Fountain Square Drive and on the building itself will cost an additional $1,000, Brown said.
The city anticipates holding a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Events Center, but a date has not yet been determined.
Envisioned since the inception of the city in 1997, the 29,000-square-foot, $14 million event center features a reception hall holding nearly a thousand people, a large kitchen, and several other smaller rooms. The project was paid for in cash.
Along with a fountain and palm trees near its Fountain Square Drive entrance, a dedication plaque outside the Center commemorates the community’s volunteers with a quote reading, “What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well-executed, can deliver.”
The city offers small event packages, medium event packages, large event packages, and conference and fundraising event packages, with several different-sized rooms to choose from. For more information regarding rates and availability, visit the city’s website here.
