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New clubhouse sets example for affordable housing communities
New owner invested $2 million in renovations
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Markel Anderson, 12, and Jordan Alexander Bryant Jr., 12, play with building blocks Wednesday at the grand opening for the Park Hill Community Center in Gainesville. Several local churches and volunteers helped make the community center come to fruition. - photo by Erin O. Smith
The opening of a clubhouse at the Park Hill Apartments in Gainesville on Wednesday shows what can be accomplished when investments in affordable housing and working-class neighborhoods are made. Angeles Apolinar, a mother of four children from elementary to high school age, said she was grateful to have a safe place for her children to learn, play and stay out of trouble. Speaking through a Spanish-language interpreter, she said that her youngest kids were anxious and excited for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.