The Fayetteville Metropolitan Housing Authority (FMHA) invited the community to celebrate the grand reopening of the Old Wilmington Road Neighborhood Resource Center located at 229 Lincoln Drive in Fayetteville on Thursday, May 15, at 10:30 am.
A celebration nearly a decade in the making, the facility has been a work in progress since suffering damage from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. After operating at a limited capacity while having minor repairs done bit by bit, FMHA staff finally had to shut the facility down fully in 2023.
“I just want to say thank you to all of our community partners that have been providing services virtually, we did a little temporary work prior to getting the grant to make it so that we can still operate a little bit,” shared FMHA Director of Operations Teresa Anthony. “Now you get to come back, you get to bring your training, your education classes, right back into the building.”
Renovations were made possible thanks to a grant of more than $636,000 provided by the North Carolina Office of Recovery & Resiliency and their Public Housing Restoration Fund.
The fund is part of NCORR’s Community Development Program initiative to assist Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) affected by disasters. The 16 North Carolina counties federally designated as “Most Impacted and Distressed” (MID) due to damage from Hurricanes Matthew and/or Florence are eligible to apply for program funding…