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Gazette: Construction Begins on Brooklyn Park Veterans Shelter
Ground broke on the Patriot House Tuesday, beginning development of a facility that will house up to six homeless veterans in Brooklyn Park, according to the Maryland Gazette.
The Arundel House of Hope broke ground on its new Brooklyn Park veterans shelter Tuesday, according to the Maryland Gazette.
The facility, Patriot House: A Home for Veterans, would house up to six homeless veterans and is slated to open in November, the Gazette reported.
in December that some area residents voiced their opposition to the facility.
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"We don't need a whole block of drug-related businesses in this community," said Woody Bowen, president of the Olde Brooklyn Park Improvement Association, at a community meeting on Nov. 29, 2010.
Gary O'Neil of Arundel Neighborhoods in Brooklyn Park said the block of Ritchie Highway where Patriot House will be already has a halfway house that serves about 26 people who are recovering drug and alcohol addicts and a methadone clinic that sees about 75 to 100 people a day.
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Read the full Gazette story: mdgazette.com/content/work-starts-shelter-vets-brooklyn-park.
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