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Group Works to revamp North Versailles community center…
This run-down, overgrown building was once the hub of this North Versailles neighborhood.
It was the Crestas Terrace Community Center on Porter Street and it’s been closed for years. Now there’s an effort to revitalize it.
“It’s gonna be beautiful,” said Dereck Hall, facilities manager. “All we have to do is get the funding.”
Mount Carmel Baptist Church owned the building and turned it over to the Crestas Terrace Revitalization Project. They are working to transform it back to the way it was — a place for children and senior citizens.
Standing on forbears’ shoulders to bring a community…
The Crestas Terrace Revitalization Project began with the founding of Crestas Community Days, a massive reunion of family, friends and neighbors past and present at the Crestas ballfield. People return from all over the country and as far as Germany.
Ms. Abdullah began the event, which takes place at the end of August each year, in 2009. With 2020 canceling plans for Crestas Community Days and the church willing to donate the building, the group changed its name and filed for nonprofit status, which was approved in December. The project also acquired land, currently wooded, behind the building for possible expansion….
Group Works to revamp North Versailles community center…
NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. — This run-down, overgrown building was once the hub of this North Versailles neighborhood.
It was the Crestas Terrace Community Center on Porter Street and it’s been closed for years. Now there’s an effort to revitalize it.
“It’s gonna be beautiful,” said Dereck Hall, facilities manager. “All we have to do is get the funding.”
Mount Carmel Baptist Church owned the building and turned it over to the Crestas Terrace Revitalization Project. They are working to transform it back to the way it was — a place for children and senior citizens.