Atlanta officials and business leaders broke ground on a new youth center on the city’s Westside Wednesday. The site chosen for redevelopment sat in an area of English Avenue filled with gutted homes.
“In the hills of all the blight that you see here,” said outgoing Atlanta Police Chief George Turner in his remarks, “there are still men and women that have a desire to raise their family and make a difference in their lives.”
The new youth center, from the Atlanta Police Foundation, the Westside Future Fund and other groups, will focus on keeping kids out of crime. Part of the way it will do that is by providing social and mental health services to up to 150 youth.
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