Homelessness in Porter Square

Our list of roundtable participants:

Mardi Moran, x-Tags owner & member St. James Church 

Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern  

Ellen Semonoff, Asst. Mngr., Human Services, Cambridge

Mark McGovern, Exec. Dir., CHA Healthcare for the Homeless,

Mark Alston-Follansbee, Exec. Dir., Somerville Homeless Coalition 

Police Commissioner Branville G. Bard, Jr.

Officers Eric Helberg and Matt Price, CPD Homeless Outreach Officers 

Envision Cambridge with Melissa Peterson

These note were submitted by Jeff Byrnes.

Melissa Peters from the City of Cambridge presented on the Envision Cambridge process, current status, and future results. She took us through a presentation, showing that the Alewife area is already benefitting from study done as part of Envision Cambridge, and showed areas that will receive intensive, cursory, or no study as part of the process.

Aaron Hemquist, Senior Development Manager of Real Estate for Target Corporation in Minneapolis joined us to talk about Target's plans for their new store at the Porter Square Galleria.

The minutes on this part of the meeting are taken largely from the excellent reporting by Ron Newman, along with the comments of others online.