MISSOULA — The city of Missoula soon will have a new, $10.9 million YWCA homeless and domestic violence shelter.
The Missoulian reports the Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s board approved up to $144,404 in Tax Increment Financing to assist in the building of the emergency shelter.
It will include a domestic violence shelter capable of securely housing up to 13 individual families with children. And it will have a central facility jointly operated by YWCA and Family Promise that will be able to provide shelter for up to 31 homeless families each night.
The project also will include a service center made up of offices, meeting rooms and program space for counseling, support groups and a walk-in crisis center.
Missoula Redevelopment Agency Assistant Director Chris Behan says construction of the 36,000-square-foot (3,344-square-meter) facility is expected to begin in the summer of 2020.