If you love dogs and cats and have $250,000 laying around Vicki Pasenko wants to hear from you. Pasenko, executive director of the Evanston Animal Shelter and co-founder of the Evanston Animal Shel…
Evanston’s new animal shelter is still under construction but the $6.4 million facility is schedule to open in Sept.. Pasenko, executive director of the Evanston Animal Shelter and co-founder of the Evanston Animal Shelter Association, is looking for someone to donate $250,000 to secure the naming rights on the Community Room and other spaces in Evanston’s soon-to-be-opened, state-of-the-art animal shelter.
The shelter launched a capital campaign to raise $1.2 million of the $6.3 million it will cost to open the new facility. Evanston kicked in $4 million and Cook County gave $2.9 million. Construction of the new 8,800 square foot shelter at 2310 Oakton Street in EvanstonShe said selling naming rights for various rooms has already raised about $600,000 with many who donated naming rooms after their pets.
The new shelter replaces the old shelter that opened in the 1970s in a building that had been used by the city as a recycling center. It was not designed to be an animal shelter leading to many shortcomings, Pasenko said.
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