Friday is the last day for Lincoln's downtown senior center.
Aging Partners said Thursday that the center at 1005 O St. will close for good at 1 p.m. Friday.
The senior fitness center at 555 S. Ninth St. will remain open for another week, closing permanently at 4 p.m. April 14.
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Both centers will relocate to the Victory Park development on the Veterans Administration Campus at 600 S. 70th St. and will reopen May 3. The senior center will be open from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays, with lunch served at 11:30 a.m. The fitness center will be open from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays.
In the interim, seniors can visit one of the city's three other senior centers at 6310 Platte Ave., 1235 Judson St. and 2225 Washington St.
The city announced last fall that it intended to sell the 1005 O St. building, which has housed the senior center and offices since 1984.
It’s developers say it will empower the elderly to go where they need to go via their own two feet.
Photos: Lincoln's changing skyline
Lincoln 1867
This 1867 photo of what is now downtown Lincoln, likely taken from 10th and O streets and looking southwest, shows the very beginnings of the city’s skyline.
Courtesy photo
1800s Lincoln skyline
The skyline of Lincoln looking southeast toward the Capitol in the late 1800s.
Courtesy photo
2000 skyline
Last sunrise of the century: The sun reflects on the water of Capitol Beach Lake on New Year's morning of 2000 in this view from West Lakeshore Drive.
Journal Star file photo
June 2001 skyline
 A bench on the top of "Tanker Hill" in Arnold Heights Park offers a panorama of the Lincoln skyline on June 10, 2001.
Eric Gregory/Journal Star file photo
July 4, 2001 skyline
Fireworks explode over Lincoln's downtown skyline in this July 4, 2001, photo.Â
Eric Gregory/Journal Star file photo
2001 Skyline
A sunrise photo in 2001 of downtown Lincoln's silhouette is used to entice travelers or others who pick up a Visitors Guide published for the Lincoln Convention and Visitors Bureau. The guide is among several publications produced to market the city to businesses, potential newcomers and tourists.Â
Journal Star file photo
Night skyline 2002
Lincoln skyline at night in 2002. Photographed from Gen. Arnold Park in Air Park.
Journal Star file photo
Sept. 7, 2002, skyline
Cyclists ride by the Lincoln skyline on Sept. 7, 2002, on Interstate 80 as they head east for Sept. 11 ceremonies in New York City, the Pentagon, the Pennsylvania crash site and Arlington National Cemetery.
Eric Gregory/Journal Star file photo
April 11, 2003 skyline
Seen from Superior Street and Interstate 180, the Lincoln skyline is cloaked in smoke April 11, 2003, from a fire at a tank farm in Tulsa, Okla.
Journal Star file photo
June 2003 skyline
View of the skyline looking north from the seventh floor of BryanLGH West in June of 2003.
Journal Star file photo
April 22, 2005, skyline
The Kennard House in downtown Lincoln is nearly completely obscured by tree tops in this photograph taken April 22, 2005, from the fifth floor of the capitol building. Trees now extend far past the horizon.
Journal Star file photo
Jan. 19, 2007, skyline
Looking toward Lincoln Station from the Harris Overpass, the arena was envisioned in front of Lincoln Station, with a parking garage and hotel to the left.Â
Journal Star file photo
July 2009 skyline
University Towers' ornate details make it one of Lincoln's architectural gems. Its new rooftop sanctuary offers a bird's-eye view of the city's skyline in July of 2009.
Journal Star file photo
Building boom
Construction cranes at the Pinnacle Bank Arena site vie for attention with the Capitol on Lincoln's skyline on Jan. 17, 2012.Â
Journal Star file photo
Jan. 18, 2013 skyline
A view of the downtown Lincoln skyline bookended by the in-progress Pinnacle Bank Arena (left) and the Capitol on Jan. 18, 2013, as seen from Arnold Heights Park.
FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal Star file photo
Aug. 18, 2013, skyline
Nearly three years after construction began, Pinnacle Bank Arena in August 2013 is a big part of Lincoln's skyline.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star file photo
Sept. 3, 2013, skyline
Lincoln's skyline in September 2013, with the Pinnacle Bank Arena on the right and Memorial Stadium.
KRISTIN STREFF/Lincoln Journal Star file photo
Lincoln skyline 2014
The Lincoln skyline.
Journal Star file photo
Haymarket skyline 2015
A view of downtown Lincoln looking to the east-southeast. Lincoln has been listed in the top 10Â "most beautiful cities in the U.S.A."
Journal Star file photo
2020 skyline looking northwest
Downtown Lincoln skyline, looking northwest from Lincoln Mall and South 12th Street (fourth floor of Landmark Centre) on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.Â
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
Lincoln skyline looking northeast
Downtown Lincoln skyline, looking northeast from Lincoln Mall and South 12th Street (fourth floor of Landmark Centre) on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.Â
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
2020 skyline
A towering crane marks the future site of the 20-story Lied Place Residences, destined to be Lincoln's second-tallest building. That project, along with proposals for the Ninth Street corridor, at O, P and Q streets, will fill in the city's skyline.
FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR
Downtown and Capitol skyline
Downtown Lincoln and the Capitol looking southeast on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020.Â
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
Skyline from Air Park in 2021
The skyline from February 2021 in Air Park.
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
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