Construction begins on $12 million Cambridge community center

CAMBRIDGE, Md. – After more than ten years of planning, construction has finally begun on a massive new community center in Cambridge.

The facility will be known as the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Intergenerational Center at Delmarva Community Services (DCS). Ground was broken in October but steel beams are now being installed. The almost 12-million dollar project will expand on the resources that DCS already offers for seniors, people with disabilities, kids and countless others. Officials say the main purpose of this is to offer a new space to connect residents of all ages to different opportunities and programs.

“Seniors tend to be isolated at home when perhaps their adult children move away. Children tend to be segregated into daycare and child facilities or school. And sometimes during the day don’t have the opportunity to mix and mingle like people used to do in multi-generational families,” says Mary Handley, the program manager at Delmarva Community Services.

Organizers tell 47 ABC there will be many free programs for people to take advantage of. We’re told this is creating about 120 construction jobs and then 50 new full-time jobs once the facility is complete, which is expected to happen in the Spring of 2021. The facility is being built next to the current DCS building at 2450 Cambridge Beltway.

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