Non-profits moving into V.O. Dobbins Complex
KINGSPORT– It was moving day last week for several non-profit organizations relocating to the new V.O. Dobbins Complex. Other non-profits have keys to their new office space, but arent moving until this week.
The movers were at our place at 7 this morning, at our old office, and we started loading up and … have most of our stuff here today, Doris Bush said last Wednesday. Bush, executive director of United Way of Greater Kingsport, was helping her staff move to the second floor of the new non-profit wing from their old location on North Eastman Road.
The V.O. Dobbins Complex is a city-owned community center located between Louis and Wheatley streets in Riverview. The building, which served as Douglass High School from 1951 to 1966, is the recipient of a multimillion dollar renovation and expansion. Kingsport began renovating the facility more than a year ago, adding 50,000 square feet of new space, including another gymnasium, and the new 28,000-square-bart, three-story non-profit wing. The new gym features a regulation sized basketball court and doubles as space for two volleyball courts.
The new nonprofit wing stands on the site of the old auditorium and houses the Neighborhood Service Center of UETHDA and Mountain Region Speech and Hearing on the first floor, the United Way on the second floor, and, on the third floor, the ALS Association Tennessee Chapter, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tri-Cities, the Palmer Center, Kingsport Tomorrow, the American Legion and the Tri-Cities office of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of East Tennessee.
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