The City of Rochester wants to convert a former lumber company building into a community center for the Clifford Avenue area, hoping to make it more of a community.
A letter from Mayor Lovely Warren to City Council calls for seeking more than $854,000 from the state to fund the El Camino Community Center on the El Camino Trail, the former railroad line that cuts through the northeast side and was turned into the El Camino bike trail. Turning the former Giordano Lumber Company and 200 Clifford Avenue into a community center would be a $1.2 million project. The city envisions an atrium, a conference room, training room, a large meeting room and more.
The mayor says this will be an investment into strengthening a troubled neighborhood and push job training and job development in the Northeast Sector of the city.
The question is scheduled to come before City Council on Tuesday night.