Kyle's new senior facility on Dacy Lane will soon carry the name of the woman who fought to save the city's historic former City Hall nearly two decades ago. The Kyle City Council voted unanimously at its regular meeting Tuesday to direct the city manager to bring back a resolution officially naming the building the Adell Hurst Senior and Community Center.
The 10,650-square-foot facility at 1500 Dacy Lane is expected to open this summer, according to the city website, and will offer both senior programming and event space for the wider community, as reported by Community Impact. Council member Yvonne Flores-Cale made the motion to name the facility the Adell Hurst Senior and Community Center, after the council had initially proposed calling it the Adell Hurst Senior Activity Center. Kyle Area Senior Zone, the nonprofit Hurst helped establish, approved adding the word “community” to the final name.
Hurst worked with community members in 2006 to preserve Kyle's historic former City Hall building, helping repurpose it as a senior activity center rather than see it demolished. That building, now known as the Krug Activity Center, became the home of Kyle Area Senior Zone and even has a ballroom named the Adell Hurst Room in her honor, the same report notes.
A Legacy Rooted in Grassroots Advocacy
Kyle Area Senior Zone, known as KASZ, supports senior programming and opportunities for engagement, wellness and community involvement. According to the Hays Free Press, Hurst founded the nonprofit in February 2006 after successfully petitioning the city council against demolishing Kyle's historic City Hall and helping raise nearly $200,000 to save it.
City official Melisa Medina said Hurst's legacy represents the value of community involvement, volunteer service and residents creating opportunities for one another. KASZ member Ellen Ermis said the organization is looking forward to opening the new center soon, adding that time at the facility will be divided between senior and community events.
From Vacant Medical Building to $3.5 Million Community Space
The path to the new facility took years and multiple false starts. The Hays Free Press reports that roughly four to five years before the city purchased the Dacy Lane property, KASZ had already raised more than $200,000 toward a new senior center, but that money was eventually returned to donors after the project faced repeated municipal delays, with prior city leadership citing other capital projects as higher priorities.
The City of Kyle ultimately purchased the property at 1500 Dacy Lane on December 24, 2024, for $3,273,722 to serve as a dedicated community and senior space, according to the Hays Free Press. A Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing later listed the renovation of the roughly 10,000-square-foot facility as a $3.5 million public project designed by Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects. The city acquired 10,650 square feet of the 12,700-square-foot building, while the remaining portion continues to operate as medical offices, per Community Impact.
Six Rooms, One Ballroom, and a Growing Waitlist of Need
In June 2025, the Kyle City Council approved a final design layout for the facility featuring six multipurpose rooms with retractable walls, allowing the space to transform into a single ballroom accommodating up to 300 people, according to city records. The layout followed public focus group sessions with both KASZ members and non-members held earlier in 2025.
City reports indicate that relocating senior operations from the Krug Activity Center became necessary because growing KASZ participation caused the historic building to exceed safe capacity and fall short of modern ADA compliance standards. Municipal staff have worked with KASZ to try to ensure continuous service during the transition to the new site.
A Booming County Fuels the Need for Space
The demand behind the new center reflects broader demographic pressure across Hays County. Between 2000 and 2024, the county's overall population nearly tripled to almost 300,000 residents, while its population aged 65 and older nearly doubled from roughly 7.5% to 13%, according to Community Impact. Hays County launched a Task Force for Aging Gracefully for Everyone in late 2024 to address the shift.
The pressure is not expected to ease. Regional demographic forecasts published in late 2025 project that the county's total population will double over the next 35 years, growing from 301,000 in 2025 to 612,000 by 2060, making Hays one of the fastest-growing counties in Texas.
Ahead of the opening, the City of Kyle announced in July that it is modifying driveway traffic patterns at 1500 Dacy Lane to resolve sightline issues and improve safety along the road, since the land geometry near the driveway had previously obscured sightlines for turning vehicles. City officials have not announced an exact opening date beyond the projected summer timeline.
