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Southern Baptist breaks ground on $32M facility to expand health care access in East Baltimore
Source: Penelope Blackwell / The Baltimore Banner
All that remains where an old laundry factory in East Baltimore once stood is a pile of gravel, littered trash and broken bricks tagged with graffiti. But a local anchor church, which purchased and demolished the building years ago, is working to transform the site into a $32 million health and wellness center.
Bishop Donté Hickman Sr., head of Southern Baptist Church, led a ground-breaking ceremony this week to mark the start of construction on the new Southern Streams Health and Wellness Center. The 20,000-square-foot center, at 1501 N. Chester St., will bring urgent and primary health care services to the Broadway-East community, as well as a pharmacy, comprehensive nutrition guidance and medical work force training.
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