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Thurden Center outlines 2025 arts, senior services and plan to renovate Bartram's Warehouse
Summary
Amanda Cleary, representing the Thurden Center, described 2024 programming, ongoing senior meal service and arts classes, and a 2024 purchase of Bartram's Warehouse that the nonprofit plans to renovate into a community center and small-business incubator.
Amanda Cleary told the Ironton City Council on Feb. 27 that Thurden Center, a grassroots nonprofit founded in February 2019, is using arts programming and partnerships to support neighborhood revitalization in Ironton and the surrounding Appalachian River Region.
Cleary said Thurden Center provided 2,381 meals in 2024 through partnerships and a collaborative kitchen, hosted 40 community art opportunities and several community events including a riverfront mural installation and a Summer Solstice Music and Arts Festival. The group operates an Ironton Senior Center out of Park Avenue Apartments on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and said it is seeking grants and partnerships to make senior lunches free (currently $4 per meal).
Cleary said Thurden Center purchased the Bartram's Warehouse on Eighth and Railroad Street last fall and plans to convert the building into a community center with art classrooms, remote-work space, an industrial kitchen, a small-business incubator and a potential emergency response staging area; she said the building requires extensive renovations and that immediate needs such as gutters and roof work will be prioritized.
Cleary described the group's 2025 schedule of events, including Trash Bash (April 26), Community Crosswalk (May), a youth fishing program in June and the Summer Solstice festival; she said the center funds its work through federal, state and local grants, foundation support, partnerships, fundraising and donations and offered 2025 partnership packets to council members.
Ending: Cleary offered to answer council questions and provide printed partnership materials; council members asked a few logistical questions about dates and permitted uses and thanked the nonprofit for its work.
