The Skills Center

Investment

  • NMTC Amount: $20,000,000
  • Total Project Cost: $20,434,546

IMPACT

  • 87 FTE jobs
  • 94 construction jobs
  • 50,023 sq. ft. of real estate

Project Description

Acquisition and construction financing with enable the Skills Center, a Black-led nonprofit in Tampa focused on academic and leadership success for children of all ages by connecting them with sports and athletic programs, to create a 5-acre campus. The property is in the predominantly African American part of the Tampa metro area in a relatively high poverty concentration area and lay vacant. The 35,000 sq. ft. former skating rink and office building will be fully renovated and will house, along Skills Center’s sports oriented afterschool programs, a collective of other local Black-led nonprofits from the local CDC to. Long term they intend to construct additional gymnasiums and other program space on that portion of the property. TSC works across a range of sports, with both boys and girls, both in school and with extra-curricular programs to create an environment for student athletes to be trained in the on-court leadership, discipline and focus that will empower them off the court in the classroom, the office and the home. This project will allow them to expand into offering e-sports, a growing area of interest for their students, to connect students to a larger set of wraparound services through their partner organizations and to expand their non-programmatic sport offerings (coaching, travel teams, leagues etc).

MAP

Address: 5107 North 22nd Street, Tampa, FL 33610

Census Tract: 12057001900

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