Great News for Old North Dayton!

Here is some good news for the Old North Dayton community and historic preservation folks who would like to see the Duncarrick Mansion be brought back to its original glory... not to mention a huge win for the Dayton Corps of the Salvation Army - who will be receiving about $66 million from the Ray & Joan Kroc foundation to build a new community center and completely rehab this spectacular piece of Dayton's architectural history.

 

Dayton Daily News

By Margo Rutledge Kissell

Link: Salvation Army nears $7.5 million goal for community center.

The Dayton Corps of the Salvation Army is trying to raise the final $200,000 in its $7.5 million fundraising campaign for a Kroc Community Center.

...Duperree said an Oct. 7 ground-breaking ceremony has been set and the campus is slated to open in May 2009.

The center will have a strong educational component including an early childhood center and a technology cafe. It also will feature a worship center, food pantry, movie theater, dance studio, piano lab, athletic fields and banquet center. It will be open to everyone and no membership will be charged, Duperree said.

UPDATE: Jerry Bowling from the McCook Field neighborhood contacted us to let us know that the Kroc Community Center is in fact in the McCook Field neighborhood, not Old North Dayton.  Sorry for the mixup (I was close but no cigar!)