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The repurposed former Lincoln Middle School (and Abilene High, before that) celebrated the final structural steel laid for the ongoing project.

Officials held a topping-out ceremony for Abilene Heritage Square Tuesday, celebrating the final steel I-beam to be installed.

"We are in fundraising right now," said architect Mitch Wright, who led the cleanup effort and gave a brief presentation about the arboretum's future. "Bill Senter kicked it off with a $30,000 grant.