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Empowerment Center/Gage East Apartments

A project for homeless families in the Rochester area is seeking funding for what the planners are calling the "Empowerment Center" to be housed in a former elementary school. Center City Housing Corp., a nonprofit based in Duluth, announced Thursday that more than 80 percent of those that participated in a campaign planning study support the idea of turning the East Gage School site into a community center, to be called the Empowerment Center.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

Collaborators

Lead Organization: Center City Housing

Contact: Nancy Cashmen ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Center City Housing (Silver Creek Corners) ; Family Service Rochester ; Lutheran Social Service (LSS) in Rochester ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County Housing Redevelopment Authority ; Rochester Public Schools ; Workforce Development Inc

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Coalition for Rochester Area Housing

Impacts

Major Impact:

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Basic Needs, Business Process, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Housing

Level 2: Best Practice, Business Process, Financial Stress/Homelessness, Housing: Affordable Rate

DMC Impacts:

Sports, Recreation, Nature

Community Health Impacts:

Financial Stress/Homelessness

Type of Project

Building

Detailed Description

The Empowerment Center is a collaborative project where multiple agencies with shared goals and values will co-locate to provide programming for low income and homeless families and youth at the old Gage East Elementary School. The focus of programming will be early childhood and school age youth development, education, job training, and mental/physical health support. The Empowerment Center won’t duplicate services already provided in the Rochester community, but will make services more accessible to a larger population in a neighborhood with great need. Focusing on the most vulnerable, the children, our goal is to grow healthy children into healthy adults who will be be ready to work and live in our community. We realize transportation can also be difficult in Rochester and the center will simplify access to needed programming for families and youth, making it easier and more convenient to receive the services needed to break the cycle of homelessness.

Other Community News and Reports having impacts on:

Basic Needs, Business Process, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Housing

December 14, 2024: City Housing Support

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

PB Reporting regarding TIF $14M Requests (Sherman and Prairie Ridge) 2024-12-14

December 11, 2024: Rochester-Olmsted County 4(d) Affordable Housing Incentive Program

The current Rochester-Olmsted County 4(d) Affordable Housing Incentive Program application is for the Tax Assessment Year 2025 - Tax Payable Year 2026, the tax savings for this application will not be realized until the Tax Payable Year 2026.

December 07, 2024: "Link BRT a milestone project for Rochester

City of Rochester Receives $84.92 Million Federal Grant for Transformative Link Bus Rapid Transit Project

LINK Progress Report to City Council

Rochester eyes TIF to support Transit Village, Public Parking

November 19, 2024: Workforce Development, Inc. presents The Downtown Business Pitch Day 2024

John Marshall High School eleventh grade Economics students will take center stage at the Chateau Theatre for the Downtown Business Pitch Day!

November 14, 2024: Restorative Practices Advisory Committee

Press Release: Olmsted County residents encouraged to apply for Restorative Practices Advisory Committee (RPAC)

This new RPAC will bring together residents, justice system representatives, and community organizations to promote and sustain restorative practices throughout Olmsted County.

November 11, 2024: Rochester Public Schools Referendum Nov 2024

RPS Superintendent Video and Presentation Slides

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

PB Reporting on Referendum Efforts and Results

October 24, 2024: Rochester NAACP And Mayo Clinic AD MERG

Love Wins: Community Empowerment Initiative

Free Workshop and Community Townhalls Press Release

October 21, 2024: RPS Family Engagement Reports

Oct 2024 Reports

Reading Literacy Updates

October 16, 2024: 2024 Destination Medical Center Reports

Proceedings

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

October 11, 2024: Juneteenth Activities

November 2024 Selma Film and Discussions

2024 Recognition: $1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support, Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth

October 09, 2024: Rochester Community Initiative (RCI)

Students Decoded: The Mental Health Database

C2C October 9, 2024 Summit

Presentation Slides

October 02, 2024: Rochester Vision 2050

Call for inputs: Mayor Norton YouTube Messages

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

October 02, 2024: OpenBeam to support collective impact

Presentation Slides of Education Portal for C2C Oct 9, 2024 Education Summit

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

October 01, 2024: Early Childhood Resource Hub Launch

The Early Childhood Resource Hub, a collaboration between C2C and IMAA, aims to connect Olmsted County families with young children to various resources and services.

September 30, 2024: West Transit Village

September 2024 DMCC Board Update

September 2022 DMCC Board Status: NTH to run a developer selection process with Mayo

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