Anaheim : Salvation Army to Start Building Alcohol Center
The Salvation Army is scheduled to break ground Sunday for a 140-bed residential alcohol treatment center in Anaheim. When built, possibly by December, the $2.5-million facility will be one of the Salvation Army’s largest treatment centers in the United States, officials said.
Salvation Army National Commander Norman S. Marshall and local community leaders are scheduled to attend a 3 p.m. ceremony at the site, 1300 S. Lewis St., adjacent to the Salvation Army’s adult rehabilitation center. Salvation Army spokesman Major David Allen said the new center is part of the Army’s transfer of its adult rehabilitation center from its former Santa Ana location at 4th and French streets, which was condemned by the city, to Anaheim.
An 84,000-square-foot warehouse and therapy center have already been built, Allen said. With the alcohol treatment program, the Anaheim complex will be one of the nation’s largest, behind those in Los Angeles and Detroit, he said.
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