The former Pinderhughes school in Sandtown-Winchester will no longer be used as a homeless shelter now or in the future, Mayor Brandon Scott says.

The property at Fremont Avenue and Laurens Street was a homeless shelter under former mayors Catherine Pugh and Bernard C. “Jack” Young, but “this administration is not continuing with this plan,” Stefanie Mavronis, acting director of communication for Scott, said in an email and in person.

In January, or one month after he became mayor, the Board of Estimates approved a request to allocate $575,812 to hire architects for a project called “Pinderhughes School Renovations.”

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