A major milestone in the transformation of Wilmington’s Riverside community took place Friday as the Kingswood Community Center – first established 80 years ago – hosted a grand opening celebration.
The nearly-$60-million facility on Rosemont Avenue covers 81,000 square feet. It is adjacent to the Ernest Webster Montessori Academy. Nemours Children’s Health occupies about 15,000 square feet to offer pediatric care services. The building has a gymnasium that seats more than 600 for basketball and can hold up to 1,500 people for a gathering. It also has a commercial kitchen and dining room, flexible event space, and in a separate building is the expanded Jimmy Jenkins Senior Center.
“This is a community that’s been waiting entirely too long for an investment like this and the investment around it,” WRK Group CEO Logan Herring said. The WRK Group also includes REACH-Riverside and Teen Warehouse…