A press conference was held at a transitional living project on Rock Street in Fall River. An unnamed city official, likely the mayor, announced the ongoing renovation of an old rooming house into a transitional living facility, which will also include some apartments on the first floor. The project is funded by money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and is intended to provide quality, livable housing for some of the city's neediest residents. The official highlighted the importance of such projects for reinventing neighborhoods and providing safe community spaces, also mentioning park projects funded by federal dollars. He specifically thanked Mike Dion, the local Community Development Agency (CDA) director, for spearheading the project. He also expressed gratitude to Ron Curts and his team from HUD, who were present to tour the Rock Street project and a local park to see how the federal funds were being utilized. The conference concluded with thanks to the local media for their attendance.
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So, we're here at the uh Rock Street project for um transitional living or uh an old rooming house that we're renovating, converting courtesy of HUD money. Uh we think this has tremendous potential for some of the neediest people in the city of Fall River. Um we work extremely hard to give them a quality livable spot right here on Rock Street. It was obviously one existing,
0:24but from the work that's going on in there now, it's being completely rehabilitated. Uh there'll be some apartments also on the first floor. Mike Dion, the local CDA director, has spearheaded this group, but he couldn't have done it without the people that joined us today from HUD, uh particularly Ron Curts and his crew.
0:41They came down to tour both one of our parks and this project to see how the money is being spent and making sure that we're taking uh worthwhile care of every dollar that the federal government sends us to help other people in the city of Fall River. Projects like this go a long way to reinventing a neighborhood and our park projects go a long way to making sure kids have a
1:01safe, clean place to play and I can't thank these guys enough. They they're extremely extremely busy. But they came down to see exactly what Forov is doing and I can't thank them enough. So I want to appreciate them for coming down today.
1:13>> Thank you, sir. Thank you.
1:15>> Any questions?
1:18>> Well, that's about all I got to say.
1:20>> You know, I'm not going to gab. Does anybody else want to talk? Say something about what they saw upstairs.
1:25Trey didn't break the camera, did he?
1:28>> No, but I really want to appreciate the local local media for coming out and giving us a pop here. This is a project that's really going to help the city of Fall River. Thank you all very much.