Northwest Neighborhood Community Center opens its doors

Posted on September 16, 2017
Friends and neighbors gather together to spend time with one another and get to know each other. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Northwest Neighborhood Community Center)

By Patrick Baron

BLOOMINGTON – After several years of planning, the Northwest Neighborhood Community Center is opening its doors today.

NNCC helps people utilize their talents and gifts to help the neighbors around them. Spokesperson Sarah Tunall said the diversity of northwest side of the city made it the perfect place to set up shop.

“The west side of Bloomington is really diverse, and that’s what makes it different,” Tunall explained. “It is diverse socioeconomically, it’s diverse racially, it’s diverse in culturally even from neighborhood to neighborhood. So the neighborhood we’re in, which is the northwest neighborhood, is super different from where Western Avenue is.”

NNCC will open its doors at 400 Union Street in Bloomington around 11:45 a.m. for a ribbon cutting ceremony. Guests are then invited to attend the open house from noon to 2 p.m. There will be games available to play, with prizes available for children and adults, such as passes to the McLean County Museum of History and a 3 month membership to the YMCA.

Patrick Baron can be reached at [email protected].

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