Dear BridgeBuilders Family,
I am so excited to announce that BridgeBuilders is in the process of acquiring 5210 Bexar Street!
This building has seven residential apartments and four commercial spaces, and it’s just one mile away from the Recreation Center at Turner Courts/Buckeye Commons, where we have been serving for the last 25 years.
The City of Dallas made the building available through a Request for Application earlier this year, and BridgeBuilders quickly put in our application. What we didn’t know at the time was that we would obtain this facility for FREE. 12,000 square feet for FREE. The Lord is certainly a God of miracles.
BridgeBuilders will obtain the building by year-end. The residential units will be utilized as transitional housing and we are working with the community to determine the best uses for the commercial spaces: leading ideas include a barbershop, mercantile shop for South Dallas entrepreneurs, financial center that provides coaching and affordable micro-loans, and employment training and placement.
Please be in prayer as we will need to raise $150,000-$200,000 to ensure the building is code compliant and in a state that honors future tenants and our community.
The Lord is moving and working in South Dallas, and I can’t thank you enough for the many ways you pray, give, serve, and advocate for our work.
Our next step is to launch a formal campaign for the renovation funds at the beginning of 2022, and we hope you will support us in this endeavor to bring investment and opportunity to South Dallas!
Gratefully,
Jonathan Fechner
Executive Director
