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Poor says the worries are unfounded. The new 380 Green St. location, which the shelter plans to move to sometime next year, is an ideal location not only because the building is located in the area where many clients spend their days, but also because of the proximity of the Cambridge Police Department on Western Avenue, Poor says...
...probably not the site we would have chosen, but the location is wonderful," Poor says. "We're near the source of the guests, and that can't help but improve the program." Poor adds that it is often impossible for the shelter's guests to make it from the Square to the shelter...
...which owns the current CASPAR cite and is anxious to move the shelter, has provided the new Green Street location. In return for three city street MIT has agreed to develop the Green Street cite to CASPAR's specifications and give it to the city. The city in turn will lease the building to the shelter...
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf says the council "has not made up its mind" whether Green St. is the best site for the shelter. She also said accepting the wet shelter into their neighborhood would be no "more than their fair share in a societal problem...
...tension between the shelter and the community has intensified over the past few weeks, with public community meetings breaking out into shouting matches. In addition to raising questions about the safety of the shelter, residents have also called CASPAR a well-intentioned but misguided program...