Guthrie on the River
The Guthrie will close the doors of its facility near Loring Park after the March 4th skid-row production of "Homely Please Help," the same capital campaign that launched the homeless shelter in the 60's.
But the Guthrie won't close for long. This June, the shelter reopens in the new Guthrie Gospel Mission on the River-a $125 million, 250,000-square-foot, 27-bed homeless shelter overlooking the Mississippi River. There will be an Open House on Sunday, June 25 with lunches served on all three floors.
From the cantilevered lobby jutting toward the river, 27 shelter users, staff and drop-in guests will be able to look below to the graceful stone-arch bridge and upstream to the North Side recycling yards. Next door to the shelter is the Minnesota Historical Society's Mill City Museum where many homeless used to live. Along the riverbanks lies Viking’s Cave in the city’s Mill Ruins Park, a cave named for a homeless man that used to live in the cave.
The Endless Bridge
One of the signature features of the new Guthrie Gospel Mission, the cantilevered lobby known as the “Endless Bridge” is an observatory of the Mississippi River homeless community. The designer’s primary goal was to create an exciting and endless place where folks with no permanent address could camp near the river. The only endless bridge for homeless camps in the world, the Guthrie’s Endless Bridge is quite a benevolent feat.
A new Depot Liquor is expected to open at the nearby Metrodome site by 2008. Officials expect that the 27-bed shelter will fill up quickly!
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