A Change in Fortune - Series Post #5

In 2017, after over a year of debating the merits of demolishing the Clubhouse and HSA researching all possible historical, community, zoning and programming implications, the BGCP announced its plan to transform the dilapidated Germantown Club, creating The Ralph J. Roberts Boys & Girls Club.  The BGCP has completed several upgrade efforts on different Clubs in the city, but this has been by far the most ambitious and most extensive renovation the Philadelphia Clubs have seen in the last 30 years.  Ralph J. Roberts, Comcast’s co-founder, spent his adolescence in Germantown and so it is fitting that his name grace the reimagined Germantown facility which will ensure that kids in the community have the resources to develop both academic and personal success.