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Olympic Park may add event venue big enough to hold 1,000

Lake Lanier site seen as financial benefit as park, multipurpose facility

The Olympic Park Boathouse on Lake Lanier in Gainesville, on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. The historic preservation commission has declared that the Olympic Park’s boathouse is not a historic property, allowing plans to renovate the structure to move forward. - photo by David Barnes

02252018 BOATHOUSE 06.jpg — The Olympic Park Boathouse on Lake Lanier in Gainesville, on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. The historic preservation commission has declared that the Olympic Park’s boathouse is not a historic property, allowing plans to renovate the structure to move forward. - photo by David Barnes

With the 1996 Summer Olympics more than 20 years behind it, the Lake Lanier Olympic Park is growing into something new.