Town of Black Mountain announces reopening date for Lakeview Center for Active Aging

Senior lunches and activities to resume on upper floor

Fred McCormick
The Valley Echo
March 5, 2026

The upper level of the Lakeview Center for Active Aging will reopen, March 9, the Town of Black Mountain announced in a press release. Photo by Fred McCormick

Programming and lunch service for local senior residents will resume, Monday, March 9, in the Lakeview Center for Active Aging, the Town of Black Mountain announced, March 4.

The facility, which has been closed to the public since floodwaters from Helene submerged the bottom floor, will host gatherings on the upper level.

While the top level was not damaged by the natural disaster, permitted occupancy was reduced to no more than eight people after previously undocumented charring was discovered on beams within the structural support system above the bottom floor. The town council, last October, allocated $15,000 to fund the repairs, before an additional $40,000 allocation last January.

While the bottom level of the Lakeview Center remains inoperable, the top floor, which is accessible from the pool deck, the town’s recreation and parks department will resume regular days and hours for senior programming, including meals, educational presentations, recreational activities and “meaningful opportunities for social connection and engagement,” according to a press release from the town.

The upper level of the Lakeview Center for Active Aging is now ready to safely welcome seniors back for meals and senior programming, the announcement stated.

Upon reopening the center, the town will end its temporary meal pick-up program and other off-site activities.

“I am happy to welcome all our friends back to the Lakeview Center,” Senior Center Administrator Melinda Polites said in the press release. “I want to extend appreciation to numerous locations that accommodated our programs while Lakeview was closed, including the Black Mountain United Methodist Church, First Christian Church, Black Mountain Presbyterian Church and Black Mountain Center for the Arts.”