article_snippet.sent: Mary Harvin Transformation Center was being built in a part of town where half the properties are vacant buildings or barren lots, where unemployment rates reach 25% and poverty and despair is rampant.
article_snippet.sent: The project was to include about 60 senior citizen apartments and a community center.
article_snippet.sent: In the works for eight years, Mary Harvin Transformation Center was to provide behavioral health counseling, support services for people and families with HIV and AIDS, employment training, home and credit counseling, and ex-offender re-entry services, according to documents filed with the state of Maryland.
article_snippet.sent: We were seeking to restore people while We rebuilt properties.
article_snippet.sent: We wanted to effect change in the human community as well as rebuild properties with affordable housing.
article_snippet.sent: Hickman said the senior housing complex and community center was to open in November or December.
article_snippet.sent: The partner churches are expected to complete other projects offering affordable housing and mixed-use developments in East Baltimore.
article_snippet.sent: the senior housing complex and community center is being built by The Woda Group, a low-income housing developer.
article_snippet.sent: On Tuesday, Michael Bluitt, a representative of HCO Inc., one of the largest African-American church architecture firms in the nation, offered a free conceptual rendering and design consultation for the rebuilding, CNN affiliate ABC2News reported.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mary Harvin Transformation Center was to house 60 senior-citizen apartments, community center .
  