Mercy Anchor Community Center welcomes first tenants

This week, tenants began moving into their new home at Mercy Anchor Community Center, the former Holy Rosary School, which the Mercy Center renovated with more than $4 million raised during the nonprofit's capital campaign.

The 39,000-sq.-ft. facility includes housing for 32 persons in 13 new two-bedroom apartments which feature a kitchen, full bathroom, stackable washer and dryer and other amenities. The facility also includes a gymnasium, an exercise room, a technology center, a thrift store and food pantry. The Mercy Center has also partnered with more than 20 organizations, many of whom will offer case management and other support services including UPMC Western Behavioral Health, AHN Saint Vincent and Sarah Reed Children's Center.

To read the Feb. 28, 2023 Erie Times-News front page article featuring MACC, click here.