Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced plans to rebuild the city's Long Island Bridge and build a facility to combat homelessness, addiction, and mental health.
The bridge was demolished in 2014 after it was determined to be structurally unsafe, which cut off access to the addiction recovery facility that once operated there."We are now taking this as a sign that the city will move ahead with the reconstruction of the Long Island Bridge," Wu, a Democrat, said at a Thursday press briefing."We can't waste any time, any more time, on this project.
The plans for reopening the facility are larger than the operation that existed there prior to 2014. Wu described it as a 35-acre"regional public health campus" that would have the capacity to serve hundreds of people, including long-term care, mental health treatment, housing assistance, job training, and addiction recovery.
Officials in the Quincy suburb of Boston are not pleased with the new plan, because bridge access would need to go through its Squantum neighborhood.
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