El Corazón Cultural Arts Center

2600-2625 N. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133

HACE provided Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia’s leading arts and cultural organization serving the Puerto Rican and Latino communities, development consulting services for the construction of a new 25,000 square foot cultural facility, known as the El Corazón Cultural Arts Center, to be located at 2600-2625 N. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133.

Founded in 1974 and known as “The Cultural Heart of Latino Philadelphia”, Taller offers cultural services to children, youth and their families by sharing its wealth of accumulated cultural knowledge and promoting community pride. The project involved the redevelopment of a 2-1/4 acre site for organizational expansion of services, performing arts space and educational programming, converting an unattractive surface parking lot into an alluring magnet as part of a development plan to stimulate the creative neighborhood economy in the Philadelphia Latino community.