After decades of hoping, Work to Ride finally has new $15 million facility in Philadelphia

For more than half her life, Chamounix Equestrian Center in West Fairmount Park in Philadelphia has been a second home to Samantha Rahe-Krick.

The space is the heart of Work to Ride , a nonprofit organization that has given kids, including Rahe-Krick's own son, access to horse riding for the last 32 years.

But as Rahe-Krick will tell you, little had changed since she started here when she was 10 years old.

"Horses were in the pasture with mud, probably up to my knee," Rahe-Krick said. "The barn was very old."

Samantha Rahe Krick holds the bridle leading two horses, one of whom is named Will Smith. CBS News Philadelphia

Their base was this old mounted Philadelphia police barn, but after decades of hoping and years of planning, McCausland Arena , a new 45,000-square-foot, $