EMCC will utilize this funding from the Department of Health and Human Services for the implementation of two strategies that are critical for the multi-use development, business expansion and job creation goals of the Campus. The first strategy focuses on completion of the Center, which provides space to accommodate several EMCC’s social, education, employment training, business development, food service and entrepreneurial initiatives. OCS funding will be used to provide financing required to expand the Center’s commercial kitchen, early childhood education programming and youth and senior services. The second strategy focuses on the expansion of Piper’s shipping and receiving area. OCS funding will be used for site preparation and development of land on the Campus that will be leased to Piper enabling it to enlarge its shipping and receiving area and take on larger projects. Additionally, OCS funding of $800,000 to implement these two strategies for the Campus expansion and job creation in the low-income Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood.