The Grotto Community Center began as an idea to hold space for collaboration between creatives and small business owners of all types to Downtown York.
After exploring many options around Downtown York, The Grotto opened at 2 W Market Street, on Continental Square in October of 2019 where we currently occupy the 2nd and 4th floor.
Helen Tafesse, Community Manager
Helen is a creative director wildly in love with imaginative marketing. She finds strength in numbers, passion in the impossible, and beauty in the flaws. Life is a constant juggle of artistic work, branding clients, and community projects via her company Older & Wiser Co., but in spare time you’ll find her somewhere with people… always with people, attempting to uncover the magic in the mundane.
GROWTH INTO THE FUTURE
The Grotto began as a vision: for isolated creatives and entrepreneurs to work together in community. The organization has always maintained a forward-thinking mindset, and our growth method is no different. In partnership with Grotto Community Benefit, LLC - a social enterprise, mission-backed business - we will be growing into a new location, the Grotto Commons (formerly Rudy Art Glass), situated a block away from our current location.
The Commons is our exciting next step toward maximizing our impact footprint in York. We are dreaming big by asking the question, what if?
Will you join us?
Board of Directors
Jennifer Adams
Alexa Born
David Brantley
Jay DuSold
Chelsea Foster
Rahad Khan
Sharee McFadden
Hunter Schenck
Andrew Smith
Benjamin Spangler
Skyler Yost