HUTCHINSON, Kan. — After sitting empty for several years, a portion of the old Dillon Living Center building on the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center campus will soon be occupied.

Earlier this past spring, Horizons Mental Health Center and Hutchinson USD 308 announced that they are teaming up to use the facility for their At-Risk Head Start program.

The agency is leasing about 7,000 square feet at the south end of the facility that was closed by Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System in November of 2016.

Work is nearly completed inside the building and parking is being made available. The agency planned to begin using the building in time for the start of the school year but says it will now be later this fall.

Horizons and the school district announced their intentions to move into the old retirement home just after the end of the last school year.