community center
noun
: a building or group of buildings for a community's educational and recreational activities
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The Fire will provide an additional $8 million, with half going toward the rehabilitation of Brooks Homes and the other half earmarked for a community center for local CHA residents and a parking lot for William Jones Apartments, the Chicago Fire and CHA told the Tribune in March.
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Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Of the eight sites along the state’s 200-mile-long Frank Lloyd Wright Trail, two of them are in Madison: the Monona Terrace, a community center completed in 1997, and First Unitarian Society Meeting House, an icon since its 1951 completion.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2025
For now, most surviving old train stations serve new non-transit purposes as a movie-making site in Gunnison, base for city inspectors in Walsenburg, meat processing company offices in Rocky Ford, and community centers in Steamboat Springs and Boulder.
—Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
It's now used as an educational community center, as the congregation built a new church in 1965 during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Jalynn Hilton, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2025
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Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Of the eight sites along the state’s 200-mile-long Frank Lloyd Wright Trail, two of them are in Madison: the Monona Terrace, a community center completed in 1997, and First Unitarian Society Meeting House, an icon since its 1951 completion.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2025
For now, most surviving old train stations serve new non-transit purposes as a movie-making site in Gunnison, base for city inspectors in Walsenburg, meat processing company offices in Rocky Ford, and community centers in Steamboat Springs and Boulder.
—Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
It's now used as an educational community center, as the congregation built a new church in 1965 during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Jalynn Hilton, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for community center
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“Community center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community%20center. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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