Multiple fire agencies responded to a fire at the Nipomo Recreation Center located on the 200 block of Frontage Road in Nipomo. Photo: Laura Dickinson 5-7-08
A two-alarm fire destroyed much of the former Nipomo Recreation Center off of Highway 101 Wednesday night.
The blaze burned in most of the front part of the building along South Frontage Road. It started just before 7 p.m., according to County/Cal Fire.
Nobody appeared to be in the building at the time, Cal Fire officials said.
But deputies were searching the surrounding area and the nearby Long’s Drugs shopping center for four men that firefighters reportedly saw ran away, according to Sheriff’s Department radio dispatches.
The blaze was put out by 11 p.m. The cause remained under investigation as of late Wednesday night.
The building was leased by the Nipomo Area Recreation Association until 2003, when the county Office of Education put the parcel up for sale.
An investor who hoping to build a hotel and retail stores on the 5 acre property bought it in 2004.
Since then the fate of the building and the land has been unclear, and the recreation center has been working out of modular buildings in Nipomo Community Park.
— Tribune staff report
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