MGA Partners designed the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Philadelphia.
When Joan Kroc died in 2003, she willed the bulk of her estate, $1.5 billion, to the Salvation Army'the single-largest charitable gift in history, according to some accounts. Two years earlier, the widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc had worked with the nonprofit organization to build a Salvation Army community center in San Diego designed by AVRP Studios. Joan Kroc, who had contributed $90 million to the project, was intimately involved with the design and construction and is said to have taken great joy in selecting paint colors.
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