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Resident urges renovation of Dr. Jody Smith Center to serve Diamond Square residents
Summary
Resident Anita Gibson told council the old Dr. Jody Smith Community Center is being used as an informal shelter and urged the city and CRA to pursue historic preservation, renovations and programmed services for incoming housing in Diamond Square.
At the public-comment portion of the July 28 meeting, Anita Gibson described the condition of the old Dr. Jody Smith Community Center and urged the city to plan renovations or adaptive uses in connection with forthcoming Diamond Square housing projects.
Gibson said she had raised the issue previously with the CRA’s Diamond Square committee and will schedule a meeting with the city manager and police chief to press for a tangible plan. "I will not stop until they do something with that old Jolie to facilitate the new people that are coming up in our Diamond Square community," Gibson said, calling for services such as tutoring, a clinic or historic preservation funding.
Why it matters: The center is historically associated with a community pioneer and sits near planned housing; residents and nonprofit partners are interested in programmatic uses that support new neighbors and address unsheltered activity in the building’s vicinity.
