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Welcome to

The Rising Tide center

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Welcome

A rising tide lifts all ships...

The Rising Tide Center is independently funded by The Rising Tide Foundation, Inc. 501(c)(3). Via these already established and self-sustaining streams of revenue, the Center and our board of directors are beholden to no one other than the youth and local community we seek to serve.

Not only do we have the funds to bring this vision to life, we also have the space. Located in a renovated former junior high school building in a dense residential neighborhood of Beloit, Wisconsin, the newly founded community center has over 75,000sf and 18+ acres of land.

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By the

numbers

75,000

Square Feet



2

Gymnasiums

100%

Self-Funded via The Rising Tide Foundation, Inc.

18.2

Acres



750

Seat Auditorium

The rising tide center

A BRIEF HISTORY

The story of The Rising Tide Center dates back to the early 1920's when it was built as an Intermediate School. In 1980, the building was retired from its primary role of serving students and turned into the administrative offices for the School District of Beloit.

After several unsuccessful efforts by the school district to sell the building to developers, the building was auctioned off to the public in November of 2020. Inspired by his mother's career as a public educator and his own experience renovating and flipping old houses, Cole Swartz purchased the building to turn it into a Community Center.

All of 2021 was spent networking with the community while creating the self-sustaining revenue streams to fund the renovation and ongoing operation of the building. The most prominent of these revenue streams is Rising Tide Design Co.