A renewed discussion over uses for the soon-to-be-vacant Lemuel Shattuck Hospital property next to Franklin Park has prompted new ideas – and a rise in tension among interested parties.
State officials last year scrapped a Boston Medical Center-led plan to redevelop the property as a recovery campus following the relocation of the hospital and its 260 beds to the East Newton Pavilion in the South End next year.
In the months since the BMC plan dissolved, advocates and coalition representatives have been eager to present their ideas to the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS)…