Private funds start renovation of Pulliam Building in Loveland

LOVELAND — Private donors have raised $500,000 that will go toward renovating the Pulliam Community Building at 545 Cleveland Ave., in downtown Loveland.

About 30 individuals and private foundations have pooled that amount, the required match to secure a $1.5 million city of Loveland investment to start work on the first phase of a project to make the landmark Depression-era building a multipurpose community gathering place.

Loveland resident Norm Rehme led the push…