Tag Archives: City of Gainesville

Grace Marketplace is still waiting for the city of Gainesville and Alachua County to provide funds in order to keep the shelter open and pay for its staffing. Since October, Grace Marketplace has had to pay out of its pocket to keep providing services.

On September 29, city commissioners will prove the city is willing to serve those in need by making dinner for the homeless at GRACE Marketplace.

The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center received the Forest Stewardship Council’s chain-of-custody certification on Oct. 28. GREC is the first power plant in the country to receive this certification.

Seth Hansford, a installation technician, moves a dryer at Grace Marketplace. Grace Marketplace, a “one-stop” shelter for the homeless in Gainesville, Fla. received six washers, six dryers and one large commercial washer, on Thursday, Nov. 6. A local homeless shelter will soon be offering a new laundry program to its …

Grace Marketplace will open an indoor dorm on Wednesday after submitting a Safety and Security policy to the city commission. The shelter will provide beds for 20 guests who are trying to transition from homelessness to self-sufficiency. In order to stay at the shelter, candidates must meet one of several criteria: …

GRU and area agencies are discontinuing the special hotline for complaints about noise from the biomass plant.

Some Alachua County residents are still hearing noises from the biomass plant, even after the installation of noise-absorbing acoustic panels.

WUFT News measured this past month the noise in areas near Gainesville Renewable Energy Center's biomass plant, which some locals said disrupts their daily lives.

Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet approved Tuesday a proposal to buy former Gainesville Correctional Institution for nearly $1.4 million. The prison will be converted into a homeless shelter and the Morningside Nature Center will be expanded.

(Image credit: University of Florida) Ten years after two former UF students filed a complaint against the university, construction is underway to build an apartment complex southwest of where the two once lived near a former off-campus landfill site.