LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Metropolis Rescue Mission of Lansing will formally open a brand new shelter location in downtown Lansing Tuesday, Aug. 26, the group introduced Monday.
The situation, which the Metropolis Rescue Mission calls a Single Grownup Shelter (SAS), will start operations at 415 W. Kalamazoo St on Tuesday, housing the group’s males’s shelter companies, beforehand situated on Michigan Ave.
Moreover, the shelter will host the Outreach-Drop-in Heart, which the Metropolis Rescue Mission says will assist serve the town’s homeless inhabitants by offering meals and shelter in a “centralized location.”
Building on the brand new location started in 2024. Based on the group’s web site, the undertaking entailed renovating the services to put in dorm rooms, workplaces warming kitchen, and cafeteria, in addition to lavatory and bathe services. Moreover, two separate properties needed to be mixed into one.
Whereas the preliminary focus of the undertaking was on rising the Metropolis Rescue Mission’s capacity to accommodate males, the shelter says they hope further growth would enable them to accommodate single ladies as effectively, which might then enhance the variety of beds out there on the ladies and kids’s shelter.
As part of the “transition,” the group’s donation heart is briefly closed, anticipated to open by mid-September. Metropolis Rescue Mission says updates will probably be posted to their web site.
