{"id":412431,"date":"2025-11-29T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/412431\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:57:11","slug":"william-way-center-to-close-center-city-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/412431\/","title":{"rendered":"William Way Center to close Center City building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmij9e2sx000e01vdnbz7j2dj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The William Way LGBT Community Center will say goodbye to its historic home at 1315 Spruce Street next month.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmija44su001y357t56gcsakk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The aging building needs at least $3.5 million in repairs. So far, the center has not been able to raise the necessary funds.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmija44uq001z357tbxbci91o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cIt costs more to repair the building than the actual value of the building,\u201d said Darius McLean, the center\u2019s acting executive director.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmija44xm0020357tsmu5u9sk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">He said programs will take place at the Church of Saint Luke and the Epiphany.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmija45070021357tzg8i61ys@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">McLean said they are still looking for a temporary space for archives, arts and culture,<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmija454d0022357t4tnzed9r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The center will officially close its doors on Dec. 18. To honor the space, memories and milestones built within those walls, the center will host \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/one-last-dance-tickets-1962659075127?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=listing&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=ebdsshcopyurl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Last Dance\u201d on Dec. 5 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m<\/a>. It\u2019s free, but they say donations are appreciated.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmija45960023357thslm1kq3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cThat community and sense of belonging isn\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d McLean said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Holli Stephens\/KYW Newsradio\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The William Way LGBT Community Center will say goodbye to its historic home at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":412432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-412431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}