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Grand Opening event at Summit Gardens

Summit Gardens will hold its first public event Saturday Nov 9 at 7 pm with a free acoustic concert featuring hometown boy Brent Hollensed of Bent Creek

The Howe Development Foundation is presenting the evening as a grand opening of Summit Gardens as an event center as well as the main use which is a wedding venue

The venue, Summit Gardens, has been completely remodeled inside and out and is ready for large events such as weddings and concerts The organization would like to hire an event planner before opening the facility up for smaller events such as birthday parties and reunions

The former First Christian Church was originally constructed in 1893 and gifted to the City of Howe 99 years later The building was used as a community center for around 10 years before becoming left unattended for most of this century In July 2015, a "Save the Church" committee was formed to try and renovate the property which had become in very bad shape both externally and internally The group raised enough money from community members to completely renovate the property including help from Keep Howe Beautiful which is currently constructing a flower garden on the premises

The Howe Development Foundation is a 501c(6) non-profit organization which will operate Summit Gardens as a wedding and event venue All money from the events will be used for maintaining the property and for economic development for the betterment of Howe, Texas