Old Manassas High to become ‘cottages’ for homeless families
City Council member Rhonda Logan dabs tears while attending a groundbreaking ceremony May 30. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
City leaders broke ground Friday, May 30, in North Memphis on a village of shelters for families experiencing homelessness.
The Hospitality Hub village on Firestone Avenue is on an open lot where the old Manassas High once stood, across the street from where the old Firestone Tire plant used to be.
The Hub plans to build a set of 20 “cottages” for families in its first phase there with a goal of being a 60-shelter campus by the end of 2025.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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