Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus Phase 3
Building Bridges Development Corporation/Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus – Mixed-use facility which includestenants include children’s hospital, school and early childhood agency services to LIP.Facility that houses nine nonprofit partners, including: ArtReach at THEARC, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington’s FRB Branch, Children’s National Health System/Children’s Health Fund, Covenant House Washington, Levine Music LIFT-DC, The Washington Ballet, Trinity Washington University and The Washington School for Girls. Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) is developed by a nonprofit called Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) to address the economic, academic and social challenges facing families living east of the Anacostia River, in wards 7 and 8 – the poorest and most underserved communities in Washington, D.C. The development will be the third phase of THEARC which consists of two parts: construction of a new 92,000 sq. ft. building and renovation of a suite in one of the existing buildings. In total, the Phase III expansion project will cost $34 million. The new building will be home to four partner organizations: Children’s National Health System/Children’s Health Fund, the Bishop Walker School for Boys, The Phillips Collection and AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation. The new building will also include a black box theater and a community meeting room managed by BBAR. During the expansion, the suite previously used by the Children’s Health Center in an existing building will be renovated into a commercial teaching kitchen and café.
Remington Row
Remington Row is a 250,000 sq. ft. mixed-use, new construction project in the heart of the Remington neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the first of several, planned redevelopment projects along three adjacent blocks, designed to fill a need for community services, retail and reasonably-priced apartments and to catalyze further investment in the neighborhood. The building features a 30,000 sq. ft. health clinic, 15,000 sq. ft. of retail, 108 apartments, and three floors of underground parking. The apartments are priced below-market, and 20 percent of the units are affordable to families earning less than 80 percent of area median income.
Sunnydale Community Center
The Sunnydale Community Center project will include an 8,000 sq. ft. early childhood education program facility serving 81 children from low-income families offered by the tenant Wu Yee Children’s Services.
YMCA of the East Bay’s Cherryland Early Learning Center
This was a renovation of a facility to house the early learning center. All of the 80 children will be served under the Head Start or Early Head Start programs.
St. John’s Bread & Life
Shortly after Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) committed $1 million to relief for communities ravaged by the hybrid storm.
New Settlement Community Campus
The project consists of the development of a 24,000-square-foot state-of-the-art community center within the same building as a new K12 public school in the south Bronx. The community center will include a five-lane swimming pool, dance studios, a green roof learning terrace, multiple classrooms and a cooking classroom and kitchen.
Rocketship Discovery Prep
California-based Rocketship Education is an award-winning nonprofit elementary charter school network dedicated to eliminating the achievement gap for low-income students in and around San Jose, Calif. Rocketship students spend part of the day learning basic skills at their own pace on computer programs, which constantly assess their progress and adjust instruction.
Urban Health Plan
Urban Health Plan announced on Thursday, April 14 that a new six-story, 54,000 square-foot community health clinic will be opening in the Bronx by 2016.
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Progressive Community Health Centers
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