Four nonprofits on track to renew $1 leases at the historic Stanton Community Center in Annapolis

A quartet of local nonprofits are slated to renew leases at Stanton Community Center on Washington Street. For $1 a year, the Annapolis Arts District, Luminis Health, Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation and We Care and Friends all plan to continue renting from the City of Annapolis and offering services at the former school for Black residents, which was rededicated as a community center in 1975. Two more nonprofits — Street Angels Project and Community Action Agency of Anne Arundel County — also were lined up to receive nearly-free space, but the city has put their leases on hold after learning of a dispute between the two organizations.