COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Almost two years after a fire heavily damaged the Branch County Animal Control Shelter south of Quincy, ground was broken on Monday for a new shelter that would be built behind the Branch County Jail.
Construction is expected to about five months.
The building will serve both Branch and Hillsdale Counties. Part of a ten year deal between the two counties calls for Hillsdale County to pay $30,000 a year for the first three years. That money will be used for the capitalization of the project.
Plans call for the shelter to house 20 kennels.
The old Animal Control Shelter was reopened after the May 28th, 2015 fire on an interim basis.
The old facility was known as the Coldwater Sunrise Rotary Club Animal Shelter after club members devoted thousands of hours of volunteer labor over a 3-year period and raised more than $275,000 for the project that was completed in 1991.
