The Greater Lansing Housing Coalition is looking to Washington for a $1.1 million boost that would allow the organization to finish its new neighborhood empowerment center by the end of 2009.
According to excerpts from the article:
"We don't have all of our money," said Lynne Martinez, the coalition's executive director.
Martinez said the renovation project on the former Michigan School for the Blind campus could cost up to $1.6 million. The coalition has about $500,000 and is trying to gather the rest through grants and other fundraisers.
"This would finish filling the gap," Martinez said. "We're hoping that by the end of 2009, this will be on line."
The coalition began lobbying for a neighborhood empowerment center in 2005.
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