A few hundred friends and supporters celebrated the start of construction Tuesday for the HUB for Community Innovation, an outreach center in Augusta’s Harrisburg community.

In April, 2021, members of the Harrisburg and Laney Walker Communities joined the Community Foundation, Boys & Girls Club, and MCG Foundation to create a vision that would become the HUB.

Construction on the HUB for Innovation in Augusta’s Harrisburg area has been on a fast-track to completion since ground was broken in April 2021. But architects behind the project say the HUB is only one piece of a bigger picture, and that the recent receipt of a Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant is another part.

A $1 million gift from the Medical College of Georgia Foundation will help establish a new scholarship and further diversify the state’s public medical school.