The last vestige of the former Park Lake-now Greenbridge neighborhood is the Jim Wiley Community Center, which officially reopened Friday after a $5 million remodeling job.

The pyramid-like building is the only structure in the Greenbridge neighborhood left from the Park Lake days. It's been closed for months as construction crews renovated the building.

The building is home to the Southwest branch of the Boys and Girls Club. It's also where the Greenbridge office of Neighborhood House is located. The YWCA Career Development Center helps people get training as well as employment. In addition, there's now a classroom with instructors from Highline Community College.

The new Wiley Community Center also has new community rooms, a computer lab and an improved kitchen to prepare the 1,600 meals a month it feeds kids.

Suspended from hall ceilings are sculptures of falling leaves hanging from abstract ladder-like, stainless steel forms. There are also some blue glass balls hanging from the ceiling that lend a celestial feeling to the place.

Although the building has been open a couple of months, its official reopening ceremony was held Friday. A host of politicians attended, including U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, who represents most of Seattle in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also speaking were King County Councilman Dow Constantine, State Rep. Eileen Cody and State Rep. Joe McDermott (no relation to the congressman).

Tim St. Clair can be contacted at timstc@robinsonnews.com or 932-0300.