After 40 years, Livingston County Catholic Charities (LCCC) will be moving to a new location in an effort to better serve the community.
LCCC has been renting its current space at 2020 E. Grand River Ave. in Howell since 1985. It has been a long standing goal of the board and leadership to obtain a bigger space for Catholic Charities.
“Our services touch people of all ages, of all demographics … I think having an established home where it’s really our home, will be really beneficial,” said Ryan Skomial, LCCC’s director of development and marketing.
LCCC’s is moving about 3 miles west to its new space at located at 2895 W. Grand River Ave. in Howell. It’s the former home of LACASA, another social service agency. With its new home, LCCC will have more designated collaborative spaces in order to work more with local nonprofits, to host community events, and space to raise awareness and provide advocacy for different groups in the community. In addition, the LCCC team will be gaining a few thousand square feet, giving everyone their own offices.
“Right now we actually have a couple people posted up in hallway cubicles, because we are so limited on space,” Skomial said, “It will be a much more functional space.”
Though LCCC has served the community for the past 40 years, Skomial expresses that they have never had an established home as they have leased their space, and that it is “critical to the health of the community” that they have one now. With LCCC’s current lease being up in July, it was deemed the perfect time to move rather than being locked into another contract.
In addition, the large greenery and outdoor space at the new location will be a huge benefit for various programming, especially for their clients who partake in Be Our Guest Adult Day. Adult Day is a day service program for adults facing memory loss diseases, and their families or caregivers can bring them to LCCC to be a guest for the day.
“[We] offer them chair exercises, they do crafts, we bring in Elvis impersonators, we do music therapy, and we do trivia…Right now it’s this tiny little patio and in our new space it is this big, beautiful, green space,” Skomial said.
LCCC plans to move into their new space in mid-July, and will have a grand opening in September 2025.
“We want to thank the community for continuing to show up for us and we hope that in return, we can show up for the community and make sure that we’re able to make as much of an impact as we think we can,” Skomial said.
