Cookeville Senior Center Working To Get New Digital Sign

Cookeville Senior Center working to replace the current signage with a new digital sign.

Director Maxine Frasier said this has been a major want since she first joined the center 11 years ago. She said the digital sign will help better market who they are and what they do.

“We have people calling wanting to donate hospital beds to us thinking we’re a nursing home,” Frasier said. “We have people that have lived here all their lives and say I had no idea you were here what do you do? And so I’ve wanted a sign. All we have is a little monument sign that if cars are parking in the parking lot you can’t even see that.”

Frasier said she started the process to go through the sign replacement after finding help from an $8,000 grant. She said that money has been supplemented with community donations to purchase the estimated $25,000 sign.

Frasier said to purchase the new sign, City Council will have to approve on second reading rezoning to allow for this specific type of signage.

“I think the Walnut Park sign will stay the same,” Frasier said. “We have been using the monument sign and the Arts Studio has been putting up banners and signs. So all of those will go away and it will just be one sign that will advertise both the Senior Center and the arts center.”