June 24th, 2021 by WCBC Radio

Although the executive director of the Union Rescue Mission said this week that talks with the Cumberland Economic Development Corporation about finding a new location for the local homeless shelter had broken off- city officials aren’t yet ready to move on from the project. Discussions about moving from the current Queen City Pavement location in order to expand services began in 2019- however Mission director David Ziler told WCBC News that no adequate alternatives had been presented and the two sides hadn’t had any substantive talks in more than a year. CEDC executive director Matt Miller acknowledged that finding a site has proven challenging to date- but the city remains interested in working on securing a new location for the shelter…