Providence, RI – Dignitaries including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Attorney General Peter Kilmartin redently joined Children’s Friend and Service President David Caprio and Vision 3 Architects for a ribbon cutting ceremony honoring another milestone with the completion of construction on the $1.25 million expansion and renovation to the Friendship Center at 350 Point Street.
The Friendship Center is an early learning school servicing approximately 300 children, and provides Head Start services that promote the well being and healthy development of Rhode Island’s most vulnerable children by providing flexible, effective and culturally relevant services that support and strengthen families and communities.
Vision 3 Architects played a key role in providing early planning and design services that assisted Children’s Friend in securing funding and approval for the project. The building improvements include a 1,700sf building entrance addition that elevates the organization’s identity in the community, and accommodates a welcoming lobby, a reception area that facilitates controlled building access and improves security for the children, and a large capacity meeting room that will also function as a community assembly space.
Renovations of the existing building include new fire protection systems, new interior finishes, new restrooms, and an improved faculty and administrative area.
Designed by Vision 3 Architects, construction began with the building entrance addition while the remaining renovation work to the existing building took place over the summer vacation.
