Dudley Street Community Center Gets $80 Million Grant

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"Aside from the housing and all the work this community has done, the dream of a community center was there 22 years ago," said Julio Henriquez, chairman of Dudley Neighbors Incorporated, the housing development nonprofit founded by the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. "Today that dream was culminated."

"I said to the commander, 'I have the site,'" [Thomas Menino] said. "No question about it. This is the perfect site."

"Our strategy is to put community centers wherever they're needed," he said. "We owned this land, which was key to this happening. I told the Salvation Army I'd step up to the plate."

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Dudley Street Community Center Gets $80 Million Grant

Last Friday, Salvation Army officials notified Divisional Commander Fred Van Brunt that a proposed Dudley Street community center would get $80 million in funding.

It was several dozen phone calls an...

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