The Laurel Community Center will provide education, fitness and recreation, a senior meal program, affordable rental spaces for artists and entrepreneurs, a technology lab, campus-wide broadband and Wi-Fi, outdoors learning and an environmental studies classroom, a Welcome Center focusing on the cultural and natural heritage of the Laurel region, and will foster the exchange of information and gathering of resources through meetings, lectures, workshops, and event spaces in an effort to serve and encourage the residents of the Laurel Community as well as greater Madison County.