[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Libby Army Reserve Center, New Haven, CT

Lenny Siegel lennysiegel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 20:59:58 PST 2009


Homeless Groups, City Vie For Armory

by Melissa Bailey
New Haven Independent CT)
January 14, 2009

When Fred Morrison looked at the open space at the Army's seven-acre 
site, he envisioned a new complex of supportive and affordable housing.

Morrison (in photo, in wide-brimmed hat) is the new director of the New 
Haven 10-year Plan To End Homelessness. He was among a group of homeless 
advocates who showed up Tuesday afternoon to tour the George D. Libby 
Army Reserve Center at 200 Wintergreen Ave., which the federal 
government is abandoning.

The police chief showed up for the tour, too, with an eye toward moving 
the department's academy and firing range there.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/01/shelters_city_v.php

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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