By Ashanti Lee Seabron
(DETROIT) In an interview on Wednesday, TV Judge and Detroit-native Greg Mathis announced that he'll be building a brand new 7000 square foot community center in the city on Greenfield and 7 mile, CBS Detroit reports.
Mathis's new community center will replace the existing one at that location, and he said that it will feature new amenities for people to take advantage of.
“We’re going to have [a] mentorship program, we’re going to have [a] digital technology room for our young people to teach them STEM, we’re going to have our seniors come — we’re going to have a day for them,” Mathis said.
Also present at Mathis's announcement was Ray Solomon, who serves as the General Manager for the City of Detroit Department of Neighborhoods. When talking about the new community center, Soloman said that it was "so important and so needed right here in the neighborhood I think it’s going to be amazing."
In addition to the community center, Mathis says an empty space behind the center is the site for brand new affordable housing units, and that “at this point we have 56 [units] planned."
For the massive project, Mathis expects to break ground this fall and anticipates its completion in 2023.
Mathis talked about what bringing this project to Detroit personally means to him.
“It was Detroiters who voted me into office and I am forever grateful,” Mathis said.