Holly Quinn
Jul 18, 2025
OVA turns 15, with a new city block of resources
For its 15th birthday, One Village Alliance expanded. Not just with a new building, but with an entire block.
The Wilmington organization, which got its start at founder Chandra Pitts’ kitchen table, has a mission to uplift children and families in the city’s most under-resourced neighborhoods through education, entrepreneurship and the arts. The new expansion includes workforce development in tech and STEM fields.
“We’re incorporating technology and bringing wellness to inner-city youth,” Pitts told Technical.ly.
A celebration on Tuesday at the newly renovated OVA Freedom, an urban wellness center near 31st and Market Streets, highlighted partnerships, from individual donors to public servants to businesses big and small.
“I live right down the street,” said New Castle County Executive Marcus Henry, whose mother, retired Senator Margaret Rose Henry, was the first Black woman in the Delaware state senate and One Village Alliance’s first political advocate. “It’s good to see things happening in this part of the city.”
The block extends from 40th to 30th Street in a neighborhood best known as the onetime home of Bob Marley. It includes two buildings with more than 15,000 square feet of indoor space. The buildings will house coworking spaces, studios and classrooms — including a computer lab and podcasting studio — a fully licensed commercial kitchen, a conference center and event spaces.
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