Community fights to save longtime Seattle senior center from development

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A Seattle community is fighting to preserve a local landmark. The city holds the deed for the Central Area Senior Center, but advocates would like the city to transfer it.

They're hoping to protect the site from future development -- but it comes at a cost. They're calling it the $55K Challenge. Their goal is to raise $55,000 by September 1 to help demonstrate they have the financial means to run the center independently.

Central Area Senior Center has been in the Leschi neighborhood since the 1950s, watching Seattle change all around it.

“It's continued to be the gathering place for the community," one member shared. "As well as now, with the gentrification that's taken place, it still is the place that African-Americans come from as far south as Tacoma and as far north as the Snohomish County line.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/Travel/article/community-fights-to-save-longtime-seattle-senior-center-from-development/ar-AAGEzPQ?pfr=1

[virgogal]

1. I found the article confusing.

. Would they own it for the $55,000.00 ?

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2. Go to the link that says Central Area Senior Center

It explains it all

[virgogal]

3. Thanks.