Tampa Bay foster care nonprofit breaks ground on new 12,000-square-foot center

A Kid’s Place of Tampa Bay, a nonprofit focused on providing housing and support services to youth in foster care in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Polk counties, broke ground on a 12,000-square-foot activity center on Tuesday.

The funding for the activity center is from an $8 million Building a Brighter Future campaign which launched its first phase last fall. 

The MacKinnon Family Activity Center — named after major donor and family of Dottie Berger MacKinnon, founder of A Kid’s Place — is going to be completed by Construction Services Inc. of Tampa and will include a large indoor gathering space for events, rooms for therapy, family visitation, arts/crafts and vocational education, an outdoor basketball court, an outdoor courtyard, and a swimming pool.