The Innovate Fund, a New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) Community Development Entity, provided $12.5 million to assist in the rehab of the Grady Ponce De Leon Center, an HIV/AIDS clinic providing various medical and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS.

The renovation will focus on the center’s five existing operational floors to provide improved treatment facilities for dental, ECHO, infusion, imaging, lab, pharmacy, and social support services.

“The Ponce Center has not been significantly revamped or updated since the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s,” says Shannon Sale, the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Grady Health System. “Since then, everything from perception, to treatment and technology, to floor plan designs have significantly changed.