Total makeover: Nursing home renovated into homeless shelter
By: Associated Press
May 8, 2021
9:00 am
By DEAN MOSIMAN
Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In four months, the city and Salvation Army of Dane County have turned a vacated former nursing home in Madison into a shelter that will better serve 35 of the neediest local homeless families.
The city in January acquired the 36,192-square-foot former Karmenta Center, set on 3.3 acres at 4502 Milwaukee St., for $2.75 million. Since then, it has been refurbishing the former nursing home so the Salvation Army, which has long provided shelter to homeless single women and families at 630 E. Washington Ave., can move families there from hotels being used during the COVID-19 pandemic.