The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency's Board of Commissioners this morning unanimously passed a proposal to donate land on Eighth Avenue South to the Campus for Human Development to help that social services organization build a new 38-unit shelter on the site.
The donated property, currently an unused parking lot, is adjacent to the homeless outreach organization's home. The organization has been a tenant of the land owned by MDHA for more than 10 years.
The property transfer is needed so that the nonprofit can get the necessary funding for the construction of the new building. Part of that project bill will be paid for by recent federal grant money awarded to the group for its ongoing charity efforts.
Some observers have argued that the Campus for Human Development and other safety net providers in SoBro will inhibit further redevelopment of the area. But with property now on its books and financing likely to soon fall in place, the organization appears to have cemented its place at the edges of SoBro and The Gulch.
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