TRF Project Profile: Freire Charter School
submitted by New Markets Tax Credit Coalition
on 12/04/13
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In 2012, The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) provided a loan to Freire Charter School for leasehold improvements to a facility to house a new middle school campus. In 2010, this Philadelphia charter high school was approved to open a 500-student middle school, doubling its enrollment from 500 students in grades 9-12 to 1,000 students in grades 5-12. The middle school facility is located in a former Woolworths building in Center City that has stood vacant for 20 years. The facility is located ten blocks away from Freire's current high school, which TRF also helped finance.
