South of the Clark campus at Kilby, Gardner and Hammond Streets is the site of the University Park Partnership's most recent neighborhood revitalization effort. The project, a partnership of UPP's community-service arm, the Main South Community Development Corporation, Clark University, and the Boys and Girls Club of Worcester, will include:
A new Boys and Girls Club building that will accommodate 400 children and serve up to 5,000 youths
Two athletic fields to be used by Clark's athletic teams as well as the children at the Boys and Girls Club
A gymnasium
A learning center
An Olympic-size swimming pool
Renovated and affordable housing managed and/or offered by the Main South Community Development Corporation
A testament to the relationship between Clark and its neighbors, Clark is funding the athletic fields construction and the Boys and Girls Club is funding
construction of its new facility. And no barriers will exist between the building and adjacent fields. Instead, the club will provide opportunities to bring Clark students and athletes and neighborhood children together. For example, Clark athletes will be able to tutor and run activities at the Boys and Girls Club, and children at the club will be able to use the athletics fields for their activities when they are not in use for
Clark intercollegiate and intramural athletic programs. Learn more about the project on the Main South CDC's Web site.
