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Community Service Center
2100 6th Ave
Altoona, PA 16602
(814) 946-3651
(800) 238-9763
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Logan Town Central Business District Comprehensive Service Program (CSP)
Programming
in Logantown study circles, monthly community meetings, workshops,
training programs, energy assistance programs, job & employment
services, housing opportunities, family self-sufficiency program,
special projects, Lexington Avenue tot-lot, motion sensor light,
targeted weatherization, neighborhood cleanup, neighborhood planning,
city of Altoona code compliance, project housing rehabilitation,
and Chestnut / Lexington / Howard streetscape project.
Goals
CSP is seen as a magnet project which
has established 3 goals to serve as over-acting guides for the
project:
- Foster the development of personal and family
resources for low-income people living within the target areas.
- Increase business growth within the target area
as a method of creating employment opportunities for low-income
residents.
- Improve the physical and economic environment
in the target neighborhoods.

Special
Issues
- Substantially improve housing
- Revise
educational and job readiness
- Build
the capacity of community and neighborhood organizations
- Encourage
and assist neighborhood based community development
- Create
job training and training referral service
- Develop
an educational program for drug prevention
- Encourage
every individual to become an active and effective citizen
- Improve
personal safety
- Identify
and develop open green space and recreation areas
Sponsored by:
M&T
Bank
301 W. Plank Rd
Altoona, PA 16602
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Reliance
Bank
1119 12th St
Altoona, PA 16601 |
Investment Savings Bank
1201 8th Ave
Altoona, PA 16602 |
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In cooperation with:
The Greater
Altoona Economic Development Corporation (GAEDC) & Blair
County Community Action Agency a Pennsylvania Department of
Community and Economic Development Project.
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