(RECAP: City staff will pitch to Newport News City Council on Tuesday the thought of turning the Marine Reserve Center on Warwick Boulevard into the city’s first homeless day center. With council members’ approval, the city would submit a letter of interest to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to use the building as a place where those who are homeless can take showers, transition to stable housing and potentially seek out help from city agencies, according to City Manager Jim Bourey. The Marine Reserve Center, which has been vacant for about two and a half years, was placed on the Federal Register this August as a place that can be flipped to accommodate the homeless. It’s the only federal property in the state identified by HUD that is suitable to help the homeless.)

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