DCU Center to start charging rent for field hospital
WORCESTER — The Civic Center Commission voted Thursday to start charging UMass Memorial Health Care rent for the use of the DCU Center as a COVID-19 field hospital. Commissioners Thursday said they have been incredibly supportive of the arrangement that allowed UMass for the second time to erect a field hospital at the DCU Center, but noted that the facility has suffered staggering losses due to the pandemic, and thought it was fair to start charging rent. City Manager Edward M. Augustus, however, confirmed in a statement Thursday evening that despite the vote by the commission to gradual...
Source: telegram.com