Latinx Tech Center Receives Over $600k For Renovations

The Latinx Technology and Community Center has been awarded more than $600K in funding to renovate its second floor, part of its larger plans to create a Latinx district in Flint.

To aid in this renovation, the C.S Mott Foundation has given the tech center a grant of $575,000 which was complemented by a grant of $40,000 from the Community Development Block Grant program.

It comes after the tech center released a list of projects aiming to beautify both the center’s building and the handful of city blocks surrounding it along Lewis Street last year.

These projects included establishing a community garden, creating a soccer field, and renovating the center’s second floor.

Other projects like adding artwork to the nearby I-475 underpass have already been completed while plans to expand the center’s pre-existing community garden started in the fall of last year. 

Plans for completing the renovations are set for the end of 2022.

“We’re hopeful that before the end of 2022 we will have that space (second floor) utilized for the expansion of programs and services … The biggest thing for us is to use this space to strengthen the community.

“That’s part of the goal too, to partner with community organizations to continue to fill those gaps,” Asa Zuccaro, director of the tech center, said.