Pine Street Inn will lease the old Best Western Plus, located at 891 Massachusetts Ave, and turn it into a temporary homeless shelter.
According to WBUR, its part of a plan to avoid shelter overcrowding and another surge of COVID-19.
One-hundred-eighty shelter guests currently staying in a Suffolk University dorm will be moving there. The year lease will begin next month.
Maureen Dahill is the editor of Caught in Southie and a lifelong resident of South Boston sometimes mistaken for a yuppie. Co-host of Caught Up, storyteller, lover of red wine and binge watching TV series. Mrs. Peter G. Follow her @MaureenCaught.
