Chapel Hill gets new site for homeless shelter
Published: Mon, May. 05, 2008 11:56AM
Modified Mon, May. 05, 2008 04:20PM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- Orange County's men's homeless shelter will move from downtown Chapel Hill to a site at the corner of Homestead Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, community leaders announced this morning.
The 50-bed shelter will replace the current one now housed in a town-owned building at the corner of North Columbia and West Rosemary streets downtown.
The university is buying the new property from Duke Energy and will lease it to the town. The site borders the parking lot of the United Church of Chapel Hill.
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"There have been discussions going on for some time now to make all this happen," IFC executive director Chris Moran said. "It's tailor made. ... It's going to be a very different type of organization."
The new building could cost $3 million based on square footage estimates. Moran said the IFC hopes to move into the new shelter building in 2011.
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