There's hope left for the Hope Clinic in Ypsilanti. Plenty of hope actually. The medical clinic just brought in a $400,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation and is within $1 million of reaching its fundraising goal to pay for its current expansion.
The 27-year-old organization has been consolidating and expanding its space at its headquarters, 518 Harriet St. The $3.15 million project is renovating the clinic's orginal 3,500 square feet and adding another 23,500 square feet. Construction is well underway.
"We are hoping to open in the spring of 2010," says Peggy Cole, campaign coordinator for Hope Clinic. "We're bursting at the seams."
The Hope Clinic has grown sporadically, occupying a number of different spaces across the city as it has grown. Today is offers medical clinic, dental clinic and offers social services and help for the homeless at four different locations. The expansion project would consolidate all of them into one space.
Source: Peggy Cole, campaign coordinator for Hope Clinic
Writer: Jon Zemke
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