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20 Years in the Making: Crummell Community Center Breaks Ground in Ivy City

  • June 22nd

by UrbanTurf Staff

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Ground officially broke today on the new Crummell Community Center in Ivy City, a $35.6 million investment that will revitalize the long-vacant Alexander Crummell School into a modern community space designed by DLR Group. 

The Alexander Crummell School, named for the noted African American abolitionist and Episcopal priest, was built in 1911 and closed in 1977. The road to today’s groundbreaking has been a long one. After a 20-year campaign that included defeating a polluting bus depot and later high-cost condos on the site, advocacy organization Empower DC secured approval from the DC government to renovate the historic school and its two-acre site as a community center and park, winning $35 million in the DC budget to fund the project. The school had been vacant, boarded, and fenced off from the community it once served for more than 40 years before funding was earmarked for the project.

Completion is anticipated for spring 2028.

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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/20_years_in_the_making_crummell_community_center_breaks_ground_in_ivy_city/24751.

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