The Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB), which has been in the South End for over a century, has bought a building in Roxbury and plans to open a second location there next year.

“Early demolition just wrapped up and full construction is scheduled to begin soon,” said Jessica Chen, the CMCB’s director of development. “It’s an exciting time for us.”

The CMCB, which was founded in 1910, is a nonprofit music education group that provides private lessons and music camps to around 3,000 kids per week, both through its individual location in the South End and a number of public school music programs.

It’s currently located in the basement of the Boston Center for the Arts, on Warren Avenue between Clarendon and Berkley Streets, where it leases a 9,000-square-foot space with around 20 individual and group music practice rooms.

Because it leases the South End location, Chen said, the CMCB doesn’t have as much control over its quality as it would like. The space itself consists of one long hallway with practice rooms branching off it. Most rooms do not have high quality soundproofing, meaning that the school can get very loud during peak afternoon hours. Chen also noted some basic accessibility issues.

“For example, look at the height of the window on the door,” she said, pointing to the door of a practice room. Most standard music practice rooms have a small window to allow people to see whether the room is occupied or not. “That’s at an adult level height. That makes it very difficult for children who are trying to get into a practice room.”

In contrast, the CMCB is building the inside of its new Roxbury space from the ground up, which means it can choose things like what kind of practice room doors to use.

Despite all the new benefits, though, Chen confirmed that the CMCB will keep a location in the South End, most likely by continuing to lease about half of its current space from the Boston Center for the Arts.

“Our legacy in the South End is over 100 years,” Chen said. “We haven’t always been in this building, but we’ve always been in the South End, so we don’t think of this as moving so much as expansion. It’s really the support that we’ve gathered from the South End that has put us in a position where we’re able to use cash to buy a building, which is really exciting.”

The nonprofit bought its new building in Nubian Square last year for around $2 million, thanks to a capital campaign that has so far raised a total of $17 million. Chen said it plans to spend most of that money on internal upgrades.

“The biggest thing will be renovation,” she said. “When we toured the building, there was no heat or running water, so it clearly hadn’t been used for a long time.” The space is slated to open for lessons in the fall of 2026.