Work is underway on the Howard R. Levine Child Development Center at The Renaissance public housing community. The developer, the nonprofit Renaissance West Community Initiative, is overseeing the redevelopment of the former Boulevard Homes public housing site at West Boulevard and Billy Graham Parkway.

The facility, slated for completion in October, will serve 152 children, from infants to five-year-olds, to help them address achievement gaps before they enter the new pre-K-8 school at The Renaissance, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. The YMCA of Greater Charlotte will operate the center. YMCA officials signed on to the effort at The Renaissance after examining a similar project in Atlanta.

South State Bank is kicking in $4M in construction financing for the project. Other financing sources include The Cato Corp., the C.D. Spangler Foundation, the Charlotte Housing Authority, the Dickson Foundation, Lynn and Brian Good, Jerry and Rosalind Richardson, SteelFab, the Van Every Foundation and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Foundation.