ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — The owner of a downtown homeless shelter shut down by City Hall two years ago is offering to drop his legal fight to re-open the facility...if the mayor will help get another building.
The Reverend Larry Rice of the New Life Evangelistic Center says he's not married to the property at 1411 Locust.
"We could solve this if the Mayor and developers would just sit down and say 'here's what we'll do: we'll let you open a state-of-the-art shelter over here, we'll give you millions of dollars for what you have, and you move to this location,'" Rice told KMOX's Kevin Killeen.
Rice says a new location would have to be somehwere in the city, to serve the city's homeless population.
Short of that, Rice says he's prepared to keep up the court fight to try to re-open the Locust location, a fight that could take years.