COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Branch County Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence has found a new home for their Child Advocacy Center.
It will be located across the street from their Naomi Davis Shelter House in the former Hope Network building which was shut down in the summer of 2021.
A real estate closing on the North Michigan Avenue property took place on Monday.
Coalition Director Kim Hemker says the building sold for $490,000 after it was listed for $675,000.
It was originally planned to have the Child Advocacy Center move from Quincy to a new building that would have been constructed next to the shelter house.
The Coalition was trying to raise $694,000 for a new building.
Hemker says fundraising will continue as they had to take out a mortgage and the interior of the Hope Network building needs work.
She adds the Hope Network building has twice the square footage space than what was offered in the original plans.
There’s no exact move in date but Hemker hopes it will happen sometime before the end of the year.
The advocacy center offers child-focused and friendly services. Trained professionals help with decisions about investigating, treating and prosecuting child abuse cases.
Before the Branch County Child Advocacy Center opened at 17 West Chicago in Quincy, Branch County cases needed to use the Calhoun County Advocacy Center in Battle Creek.
The Hope Network blamed the 2019 Michigan auto insurance reform law as the reason they were closing its Coldwater location last year.
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