Pickering Town Centre is getting a major makeover with new development plans expected to transform the area into a "bustling downtown centre," with thousands of new condo units, a developer says.
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VOLUNTEERS are campaigning to save a community centre and transform it into a hub for older people. The Hungate Centre in Pickering, which is owned by Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), was used by more than a dozen groups and organisations before it closed in March. A six-month halt was brought to the move to sell the building when campaigners registered the property as an Asset of Community Value (AVC) to give the community a chance to retain it. Pickering residents initially raised funds to buy the centre in the 1960s and gifted to the WRVS - which later became the RVS - as a community resource.