New GVCO Community Center Project Update

The Great Valley Community Organization helps build a strong, vibrant and connected community by providing facilities, activities and programs enriching the lives of all local residents.

GVCO Community Center

Project Update April 7, 2023

The pre-engineered steel building has been delivered to the new GVCO Community Center site, been organized and is ready to be assembled. The foundation was completed at the very tail end of March and has been being tested by a lab periodically over the last couple of weeks as it "cures", allowing it to reach the approval to begin erecting the heavy steel onto the foundation. Once the general contractor receives the approval from the township to move forward, the community should see Phase I the facility begin to "come out of the ground".

As the entire complex begins to transform over the next few months and an anticipated opening of the 1st Phase of the facility by the end of the summer 2023, we will continue to look for the community's financial support for our new Great Valley Community Center facilities on Bacton Hil Rd.

This $6.3 million complex has been a long time in the making (2013) and has become a reality due to a great number of generous community members, the acceptance and acknowledgement of a State of Pennsylvania RACP grant and an extremely financially supportive, philanthropic GVCO Board of Directors.

By the end of 2023, GVCO will have assumed roughly $2.5 million of debt financing for the project. GVCO's goal, through the entire community's continued financial support, is to eliminate the debt immediately so we can continue to move forward with the remainder of the project.

Having no loans simply helps with the long term sustainability of the complex and its programming, and the next building block towards finishing the entire project. If anyone has any questions about the project and the plan, please don't hesitate to reach out to Keith Walsh at execdirector@gvco.org.

Read and see more construction progress.

Where We Started...

Rendering of the 1st Phase of the new GVCO Community Center to be completed late Summer 2023

See the vision of our new Great Valley Community Center when all phases are finished. Find out some of what we plan to offer at a fully completed complex.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

- Dorothy Height

Do You Match?

Much of the success of any capital campaign comes from Employer Matching Gift Programs. Most corporations have a a matching gift program which enables you to have twice the impact with your contribution.

To date, we have received over $130,000 in matching gifts towards our new GVCO Community Center.

For this first phase of the project, if we could simply raise that same level of employer matching gifts, it would allow us to nearly pay for the entire plumbing in the building or all of the windows and doors.

We have compiled a list of corporations that historically have had Matching Gift Programs. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to execdirector@gvco.org and we will be glad to assist you.

The Future of GVCO

We are on our way...

to our ultimate goal of a world-class community resource that delivers a broad range of sports, educational, arts, recreational and senior programs that address key community needs.