Update: Bronson administration prepares Sullivan Arena as homeless shelter, but plan for sheltering hundreds more remains undecided
Workers assemble cots on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Late Thursday, the mayor announced the city would transport people living at Centennial Park campground to the Arena on Saturday — back to the same building that was used as the city’s COVID-19 era mass homeless shelter, until Mayor Bronson's administration shuttered it in June and moved homeless residents to the Northeast Anchorage park.
Meanwhile, about 350 homeless residents are living unsheltered in Anchorage, including about 200 in Centennial Park Campground. The city has not yet stood up emergency winter shelter for them. The city has a legal obligation to stand up enough cold weather shelter for its homeless residents once temperatures drop to 45 degrees — a deadline that passed days ago.
the building needs maintenance and repairs. Hays asked for a surge capacity of 300 people in Sullivan Arena. “This creates barriers for people wishing to access emergency cold weather shelter. If the capacity cannot be increased, my concern is we will not have adequate low-barrier shelter. This decision could result in loss of life when temperatures drop below freezing,” Johnson said.
“It is important that we do everything in our power to avoid creating another mass shelter at the Sullivan Arena. The alternatives that will be brought forward allow us to avoid this mistake,” Rivera said in the statement. Rivera said it was the administration’s responsibility to come up with a viable plan, and it did not do that.
To immediately act, Bronson could declare an emergency, which would allow the city to legally shelter more than 150 people in Sullivan Arena for 48 hours, according to city code. It’s not yet clear whether the mayor will take such action, and the Assembly would have to vote to extend the emergency beyond two days.
”I don’t want to run out of daylight,” Johnson said. “So the earlier the better, if we can get people mobilized. We know the campground is closing at 5 p.m. tomorrow to the public.”Notice signs are posted to a tree at Centennial Park Campground to alert campers of its closer, photographed on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.
“I’m not going to Sullivan Arena — that’s about all I know,” said Kelton Counts, who was busy installing a radiator into his van late Friday afternoon, in preparation for Saturday’s move. His dog, Dallas, played with a chewed-up tennis ball near his feet while Counts worked.
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