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Downtown RI YWCA ready for its closeup

By: Kenda Burrows|May 28, 2024
|12 min read
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    • A teen tries out a 3D headset during the Tri-City Electrical Co.’s career day at the new Rock Island YWCA Quad Cities The Place2Be youth drop-in center. CREDIT KENDA BURROWS

    The new 64,000-square-foot YWCA Quad Cities in downtown Rock Island has been five years in the making.

    Its champions have weathered a global pandemic and battled a supply chain meltdown that sent construction costs skyrocketing from $15.4 million to nearly $20 million, delayed material delivery and made completion a moving target.

    Despite those and other challenges, when leaders throw open the…

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