City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. met with the state's Secretary of General Services Monday over the recent opening of the Gaudenzia, Inc. drug rehab center at the former Eastern State Psychiatrict Institute (EPPI) at 3200 Henry Ave. Jones was unhappy to discover that Guadenzia had opened last month without his knowledge -- he found out during a tour of EPPI, which he was visiting because it is also to be the temporary home for the city's Youth Study Center. Jones, like surrounding neighbors, is concerned that the site is being abandoned by the state for the kind of economic development he and others envision for EPPI and surrounding parcels including former Tasty Kake facilities and the Budd plant site. State Department of General Services Secretary James P. Creedon came to Philadelphia to assuage his concerns. Jones said he was happy to learn that Gaudenzia will not be using the site for methadone treatment, but that he wanted to make sure the site was run in a way that didn't discourage future development.
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