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April 14, 2008

Federal aid to help health center move to new site

PROVIDENCE -- In a move aimed at improving the health of a community as well as its residents, a local health-care center is moving to a new location.

The Allen Berry Health Care Center is in a rented building on Prairie Street.

Today, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Merrill Thomas, the CEO and executive director of Providence Community Health Centers, announced a $241,000 federal boost to help the center move to a new facility of its own on the same street.

“The impact of the this funding in our community will be multiplied many times over,” Thomas said, “as we develop the old Federated Lithographers site turned from its current, run-down state into a new health center as well as site renovations that will be the catalyst for additional community investment and redevelopment.”

The PHCH was also awarded a $400,000 federal brownfields grant, which will pay for remediation of the site, which had been a construction site for metalworking machines tools and other products.

“Not only will this federal investment help protect the health and well being of residents and the environment,” Reed said in a statement, “but it will generate job growth, increase surrounding property values, and strengthen the local economy.”

The site of the new center is part of a larger proposed project to create an urban industrial park with commercial and retail operations as well as green spaces.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

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