 There is now a special place for homeless to go to find shelter and it's opening up just in time for winter. Our newest reporter Sherell Moore shows us around Park Place in Bemidji and tells us what it has to offer. It all started as a question. How do we help the homeless of Bemidji? There's a whole lot of people over the years that have died in the winter because they were homeless and the stories we're we heard were so moving that we chose to come and work with the community to build this building. Park Place will offer permanent supportive housing for people who have experienced homelessness or who are at risk. There are 60 units, lounges, a full kitchen and staff working 24 seven. Park Place will also help people who suffer from substance abuse disorder or chronic alcoholism. I expect very much that by having this facility the health and well-being of people is going to be increased dramatically just by having the stability of a place to call home. The residents here at Park Place will have more than just a room in a bed. They'll also have a community that they can call their own. They're going to have the ability to have three square meals a day. They'll have the ability to if there are any kind of medications they'll have the ability to actually store and keep and have some tracking of the medications that they're taking. Park Place will welcome its first group of tenants next week and there's already plans for the future. We hope to keep every unit full and keep people housed and we hope it's transformational in terms of their personal lives. I think the transformative power of having shelter and having community and having attention paid to people's health and well-being is going to become really really clear. People are going to all of a sudden feel like they have dignity and understand that people really care about them. Organizers of today's opening say this wouldn't have been possible without the support of dozens of community members. Emma Midgee, Sheryl Moore, Lakeland News. Construction for Park Place took a little under a year but the idea for the shelter came about five years ago. For more information about Park Place you can visit our website at lptv.org backslash news. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.