{"id":262909,"date":"2026-08-10T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262909\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:24:17","slug":"mercy-center-for-women-makes-progress-on-housing-project-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262909\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Center for Women Makes Progress on Housing Project | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercy Center for Women is making progress on its efforts to transform the old Sacred Heart School building into a housing complex.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mercy Center for Women Executive Director Jennie Hagerty, they have officially wrapped up phase one of the $7 million project, after replacing the building&#8217;s roof.<\/p>\n<p>Construction crews are now renovating all of the rooms to transform them into 20 apartments.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"sacred heart update.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Once project is completed, the 42,000 square foot building will help house 40 individuals who are experiencing a housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a food pantry and other wrap-around services to help families get back on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need has increased over the years,&#8221; said Hagerty. &#8220;We are increasing in poverty in our community and so to have this building and to have a place to call home, in a few short years will bless Erie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Mercy Center for Women is one of nearly 500 non-profit organizations participating in this year&#8217;s Erie Gives Day.<\/p>\n<p>All of the money raised at this year&#8217;s event will go towards this project, which is expected to wrap up by June of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mercy Center for Women is making progress on its efforts to transform the old Sacred Heart School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2447,136,138,137,3459,111123,26938,31916],"class_list":["post-262909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-apartment-complex","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-gives-day","tag-housing-project","tag-mercy-center-for-women","tag-sacred-heart-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}