Alice Cooper champions teens
Alice Cooper’s Christian, nonprofit Solid Rock Foundation has begun fundraising efforts for a 20,000-square-foot teen activity center to be called the Rock, which will be built at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.
The $3-million center will feature a recording studio, indoor basketball courts, rock-climbing walls, coffeehouse, game room and concert hall. Construction is expected to begin next year.
“People don’t lay in the sun in southwest Phoenix. There’s lots of shootings going, there’s lots of meth going on, there’s lots of gangs,” said the 58-year-old rocker, who has a home in Phoenix. “In the middle of all that is a bunch of 12-, 13-, 14-year-old kids that can go one way or the other.”
Grand Canyon University is a private college with a Christian focus.
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