Duluth Salvation Army opens new permanent supportive housing facility Plover Place
The Duluth Salvation Army hosted a grand opening for their new permanent supportive housing facility, Plover Place, on Friday, January 25th, 2025.
They partnered with Stepping On Up, Chum, One Roof Housing, and various church congregations to get the project completed. It will house 24 people, in single units, who are experiencing long-term or chronic homelessness with qualifying disabilities.
“A couple of partners said, ‘Listen, we have a thousand people who are homeless in our area. We got to do something.’ So, this was the project that began back then, about five years ago, and it’s now coming to fruition of saying, ‘Listen, we need to build something.’ And the sad fact is, the homeless population hasn’t decreased since then,” said Captain Anthony Nordan of the Salvation Army.
Now that Plover Place is open, its purpose can be fulfilled.
“I’m ecstatic. I’ve been working for like the past 18 months to get this done, and I’m so happy that we’re finally done, and we can begin moving people in, because it has been a very long process, and it’s just so exciting to see that people can begin changing their lives, and we have that opportunity now,” said Nordan.
The two-building complex is located across from the Starbucks on West Central Entrance in Duluth. Applications for housing at Plover Place should be conducted through the Coordinated Entry System.