State officials, BMC say plan for Shattuck Hospital recovery campus is officially dead

State officials confirmed today that a controversial plan to redevelop the Shattuck Hospital campus that was put on pause in 2023 has now been totally scrapped.

A development team led by Boston Medical Center won designation from the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) in June 2023 to transform the site into a recovery campus, but faced fierce resistance to the idea from residents and some elected officials. By year’s end, the BMC-led team announced that it would modify its plan to account for public feedback, but never publicly resisted the matter.

In a statement shared with The Reporter on Thursday, officials said that they worked to refine the proposal based on community feedback and funding availability, but couldn’t make it work…

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