{"id":1004097935,"date":"2014-06-06T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=267253"},"modified":"2021-05-14T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T00:19:55","slug":"taller-puertorriqueno-to-build-new-hq-facility-el-corazon-cultural-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/taller-puertorriqueno-to-build-new-hq-facility-el-corazon-cultural-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o to Build New HQ Facility \u2018El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_267254\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/06\/Taller-Portorriqueno-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-267254\" title=\"El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/06\/Taller-Portorriqueno-1.png\" alt=\"El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o, a community-based multidisciplinary arts group that has been supporting the Latino and Puerto Rican culture in the Philadelphia region for almost four decades, is looking to expand in a new headquarters facility in the Fairhill neighborhood of eastern-north Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Known as El Coraz\u00f3n del Barrio or \u201cthe golden block,\u201d the area spans several blocks between Huntingdon Street and Lehigh Avenue that house Latino businesses, community organizations, retail and restaurant space. Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o\u2019s new multipurpose building, which has already received approval from the City Planning Commission, will be called El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center and will replace a 2.3-acre surface parking lot located at the corner of North 5th and West Huntingdon. The City of Philadelphia transferred the 2.3-acre site to Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o in December 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o currently operates in two separate buildings totaling 10,000 square feet on<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_267255\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/06\/Taller-Portorriqueno-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-267255\" title=\"El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/06\/Taller-Portorriqueno-2.png\" alt=\"El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">North 5<sup>th<\/sup> Street that are two blocks away; with the new cultural center, the organization hopes to create a more visible space in a single location that will accommodate Taller\u2019s existing programs while introducing new programs and activities that will reach a broader audience in the Latino community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 24,000-square-foot cultural facility was designed by Philadelphia\u2019s Wallace Roberts &amp; Todd Architects (WRT), with Antonio Fiol-Silva and Modesto Bigas- Valed\u00f3n, serving as principal architects. According to Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o, El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center will include a larger gift shop, a more spacious and more flexible exhibition gallery, seven classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology, as well as dance and theater studios that can combine into a 5,000-square-foot event space with 220 seats. The cultural center will also feature an expanded bookstore, a caf\u00e9, a family\/community gathering space, children\u2019s play area, administrative offices, a patio and 100 parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to <em><a title=\"PlanPhilly.com\" href=\"https:\/\/planphilly.com\/eyesonthestreet\/2014\/05\/29\/taller-puertorrique%C3%B1o-closer-to-building-new-cultural-center-on-north-5th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PlanPhilly<\/a><\/em>, the project is estimated to cost up to $11 million, of which Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o has already secured $6.6 million. The project is eligible for $3 million in New Market Tax Credits, which leaves the organization with a $1.5 gap that the group is trying to close by running fundraising campaigns and offering naming opportunities for specific spaces in the El Coraz\u00f3n Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Rendering courtesy of WRT Architects<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taller Puertorrique&ntilde;o, a community-based multidisciplinary arts group that has been supporting the Latino and Puerto Rican culture in the Philadelphia region for almost four decades, is looking to expand in a new headquarters facility in the Fairhill neighborhood of eastern-north Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21742,1494],"tags":[1815],"class_list":["post-1004097935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-philadelphia","tag-national"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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