Editing Takoma Park, Maryland (section)

===Institutions===
The Sam Abbott Citizens Center, Takoma Park's former city auditorium, has been refurbished as a community theater and gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-12-17 |title=Exhibition Program |url=http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/committees/arthum/exhibition.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207155638/http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/committees/arthum/exhibition.html |archive-date=2012-12-07}}</ref> The municipal center, which includes the Takoma Park City Hall, Citizens Center and the Takoma Park Maryland Library, was expanded into a [[community center]] from 2003–2007. A gymnasium was requested by the city's youth sports leagues after lobbying from [[Steve Francis]], the NBA basketball player, who grew up in Takoma Park; but funding was not identified.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Community Center Updates |url=http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/communitycenter/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808022231/http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/communitycenter/index.html |archive-date=August 8, 2010 |access-date=September 21, 2010}}</ref> A small fenced-in basketball court has since been built adjacent to the community center.

In 2010, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church received authorization to relocate the regional Washington Adventist Hospital from the center of town to an outlying area of nearby [[Silver Spring, Maryland]], alongside its international headquarters and the Adventist Book and Health Food Store, which had also been located within city limits. This had followed an effort by county officials to close or relocate the city's fire station, located on the side of a steep hill. Due to resulting controversy, the City Council lobbied to retain the old Hospital facility as a "health campus."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hicks |first=Mitti |date=January 23, 2018 |title=Takoma Park Officials 'Stunned' to Learn Hospital's Plan to Reduce Health Facilities |work=MyMCMedia |url=https://www.mymcmedia.org/takoma-park-officials-stunned-to-learn-hospitals-plan-to-reduce-health-facilities/}}</ref> The hospital had been in operation for over a century, having been founded as the Washington Sanitarium overlooking Sligo Creek in 1907.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-06-13 |title=From the Sanitarium to a future beyond the city |url=http://www.gazette.net/stories/061307/takonew211848_32389.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040447/http://www.gazette.net/stories/061307/takonew211848_32389.shtml |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |access-date=2014-02-04 |publisher=Gazette.net}}</ref> Officials also successfully lobbied to retain a university located on the same campus, which has been renamed [[Washington Adventist University]].

In the 1970s, the city experienced controversy over plans to expand or relocate [[Montgomery College]], which has a campus located in the historic district of North Takoma, an area of large old homes adjacent to [[downtown Silver Spring]]. This debate was subsequently resolved when the County agreed to preserve the existing campus, and expand in the direction of downtown Silver Spring by building a bridge across the B&O railroad tracks. It was renamed the "Takoma Park-Silver Spring Campus," focused on health, nursing and the arts. The expanded campus included a major new arts center located in South Silver Spring, near the boundary between the three jurisdictions.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}   After more than 100 years in Takoma Park, a city on the northern edge of Washington DC, Washington Adventist Hospital has relocated to Silver Spring, Maryland and has been renamed Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical Center.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adventistworld.org/washington-adventist-hospital-has-a-new-name-and-a-new-home/#:~:text=After%20more%20than%20100%20years%20in%20Takoma%20Park,,been%20renamed%20Adventist%20Healthcare%20White%20Oak%20Medical%20Center.|title = Washington Adventist Hospital Has a New Name and a New Home|date = September 13, 2019}}</ref>

The Takoma Park-Silver Spring Food Co-op is one of the Washington area's largest [[food co-op]]s. The Takoma Park Presbyterian Church has been a bulwark of civic activism throughout its history. The TPPC helped to found [[CASA de Maryland]].

In the late 2000s, regional and national debate occurred over the decision to close [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center]] in Takoma, D.C., and relocate its operations to the [[Bethesda Naval Medical Center]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} Takoma Park Soccer Club is the sponsor of many youth soccer teams in the Takoma Park area; such as the TAPK United, coached by professional Brazilian coach Manilton Santos. A successful team, they have earned the affectionate nickname Tapioca United.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}