EAST ST. LOUIS — The sponsors of the Joseph Center, a 22-bed shelter for homeless veterans, have postponed a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the $2 million center’s completion that had been set for Friday.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will still occur, said Frank Hackmann, a spokesman for Eagles Nest, the not-for-profit group sponsoring the homeless center at 5020 State St.
"But I don’t have a date for it," Hackmann said.
The postponement of the ribbon-cutting doesn’t reflect anything other than logistics, he said.
"I mean it’s trying to get a date where everybody can be there and all that sort of thing," said Hackmann, who added he expected the center to start accepting clients between late August and October.
Hackmann could not identify the exact day that the first clients are scheduled to walk through the center’s doorway.
"Fundamentally all the major construction has been completed and it’s going to be a good process," he said.
Over the last six years, Eagles Nest has provided, and retracted, a series of opening dates for the shelter, which is being built with the help of $2 million in federal, state and local grants and loans.
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