Funds Provide Exterior Renovations

to the Former Columbus School Building

Erie, Pa.  – Community Shelter Services, located in the heart of Erie’s Little Italy neighborhood, is proud to announce it is the recipient of a $100,000 Community Development Block Grant awarded from the City of Erie’s 2009 Community Development Block Grant budget.

The grant is earmarked for extensive exterior renovations to the former Columbus School building, erected in the 1920s, which is today home today to Community Shelter Services’ Emergency Shelter, Jane Earll Family Apartment units, and administrative staff.   The majority of the repair work will be used to correct the building’s brickwork which has crumbled and buckled due to age. 

Renovation work is being completed by Northwest Restoration of Erie.  Work began in mid October and is expected to be complete by the end of November, 2010. 

For more information on this Community Development Block Grant award, please contact Pat Herr directly at Community Shelter Services, (814) 455-4369 Ext. 26, or visit us at 655 West 16^th Street, Erie PA 16502.