Building Campaign

A permanent building for UTEC means a permanent commitment to gang peacemaking, alternative education and workforce development for youth. In addition, this local project, integrating green design methods, will bring jobs and attention to Lowell. In February 2006, UTEC purchased the former St. Paul’s United Methodist Church building to serve as UTEC’s permanent home with the intention of expanding the structure to meet the needs of a youth constituency. UTEC’s building project will dramatically improve the quality of mediation, education, arts and job training that UTEC provides on a daily basis in a community identified as among the most disadvantaged in the country. The project includes renovation of the existing historic building (built in 1839) and construction of a new 3-floor addition (7,500 square feet) attached to the existing structure. The overall building will include a new café open to the community on the first floor, a performance center on the second floor, and new classrooms for UTEC’s alternative education and GED programs on the third floor. The project will increase UTEC's capacity to serve youth through our most intensive programs.

**Come join us for the next Green Building Event: Hard Hat Tours on Dec. 15th, 8am and 9:30am and Jan 11^th, 8am and 9:30am! Click here for details. Want to register for the Hard Hat Tours? Click here.

Click on the fact sheet to the right for details on all of the green features
of our new building.

We expect to be the first LEED Platinum Building in the Merrimack Valley
and the Oldest Building in the country to gain LEED Platinum status!

New building will be on:
34 Hurd Street
Lowell, MA 01852

Our project will bring the following benefits to the community:

100 new construction jobs with UTEC serving as a pre-apprenticeship site for carpentry students.
25 new permanent full-time positions within UTEC for low-income residents of Lowell.
UTEC's youth center will become a community education center for green design and will have the distinction of being the OLDEST platinum LEED certified building in the country. Click for more information about LEED certification.

Click here to learn more about sponsorship opportunities to reach sustainability-minded customers in the Merrimack Valley.

To make a donation to our capital campaign please click here.