“This is a topic that we recognize people feel passionately about,” Robert Koenig, vice president of strategic programs at Boston Medical Center, said at Thursday’s hearing.
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Residents are pushing back on a state plan to transform the former hospital into something unprecedented: a massive public health campus in Franklin Park.
A coalition of residents from neighborhoods surrounding Franklin Park is calling on the Boston Medical Center to halt its plans to redevelop Shattuck Hospital into a multifaceted campus featuring clinical services, emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing.