It's been a little over a year since Muhammad Ali passed away.

But at the rustic Schuylkill County camp where he trained for some of his biggest fights, Ali is alive in spirit.Work has been underway for the last four months to restore the cabins where Ali, trainer Angelo Dundee, and sparring partner Larry Holmes stayed as they prepared for fights."What we want to do is sort of like a museum," said Sam Matta, a spokesman for the group restoring the camp. "Underprivileged kids are going to come in here, they're going to see what Muhammad Ali was all about - that you could do anything you wanted to do."Ali used the camp from 1972 until his retirement in 1981 - spending months there training for some of his most historic fights.He chose Schuylkill County at the suggestion of his business manager, Gene Kilroy, who hails from the coal region but enjoyed a long career in entertainment."They called it 'fighter's heaven'. The great fighters trained there, and we put that place on the map," Kilroy said.After years as a karate camp, the property was purchased last year by Mike Madden, the son of legendary football coach John Madden. He hopes to resurrect the property as a museum.Kilroy said he is pleased that the camp is getting its due as a historical site."It's going to hold up his legacy. That camp, people will be coming there for years and years," he said.On the occasion of the anniversary, the camp's new owners decided to open it to the public, and welcome Ali's fans."We thought there would be like a pilgrimage, but we also wanted the press to see what has been done in the last four months," he said.Most of the work so far has been focused on stabilizing the log cabins and protecting them from the elements.They replaced the aging roofs on five of the buildings - including a cabin that was built for Ali himself.On a tour of the property, Matta recalled how his friend Kilroy put the camp together."Ali was training in Miami, and they figured they could save a lot of money," Matta said. "There was nothing here, it was all barren. Then they constructed this gym first."When he trained in Schuylkill County, Ali lived up to his crowd-pleasing personality, often venturing out into the coal region towns to the wonder of local residents."He loved it there. All the people were good to him," Kilroy said.The new owners are hoping that Ali's allure will draw dignitaries to the area when the restored camp reopens, and continue to draw tourists for years to come."We're going to send out 100 invitations, and all the great old fighters, they'll be here. ESPN will be here, we're bringing the governor in for the dedication," Matta said.