Youth Non-Profit Buys Front Street Office

BizNews Pa reports:

A Harrisburg-based, youth-focused nonprofit has purchased the longtime home of the Pennsylvania News Media Association at 3899 N. Front St.

• Youth Advocate Programs Inc. paid $2.235 million for the 18,000 square-foot building in Susquehanna Township, according to Dauphin County deed records.
• The nonprofit -- which provides community-based services to at-risk youth -- plans to move around 80 staff members there in October, according to its president, Gary Ivory.

From where: Youth Advocate Programs, or YAP, has a main office at 2007 N. 3rd St in Harrisburg, as well as in some surrounding Midtown properties, Ivory said.

• To help pay for the new space, the nonprofit plans to sell its main office and a neighboring property at 2028 N. 3rd St., according to Ivory.