Issue link: https://newsleader.uberflip.com/i/215277
Sarasota News Leader November 22, 2013 Page 14 Sarasota that includes services from medical Sarasota center. He also lists other potential help to job training. names for it, from "Sarasota Safe Beginnings" to "Bridges to Home." In his report, Marbut suggested his four optimal sites for the homeless shelter, which he ONE CITY COMMISSIONER has called a "transformational center" and DISAPPOINTED "stabilization unit." This facility would also be the location for the master case managers All four of Marbut's top suggested sites for the who would try to assist homeless men and facility are in the city limits. Three are in the City Commission's District 1, which encomwomen. passes parts of downtown north of Fruitville Marbut suggests naming the shelter "Sarasota Road as well as north Sarasota. Safe Harbor" after Pinellas Safe Harbor, which has served as inspiration for those backing Marbut evaluated 65 sites before coming up shelter plans in Sarasota County. The facility with four optimal locations that are either should be run by the Sarasota County Sheriff's for sale or publically owned; he lists six additional "possibly viable" sites. Office, he writes. Pinellas Safe Harbor and Prospects Courtyard The top four locations are 1003 N. Washington in San Antonio, TX, are Marbut's models for a Blvd., north of Gillespie Park; 1121 Lewis Homeless people gathered on Central Avenue in downtown Sarasota earlier this year. Photo by Norman Schimmel