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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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Housing
Epicenters Canal Commons affordable housing development will get a critical new element - a new senior-friendly greenspace complete with accessible trails, benches, and shade features - ensuring that Green Rivers older residents can safely age-in-place.

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