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The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, September 12, 1996
Rick Jervis; Herald StaffWriter
Salazar, diagnosed with full-blown AIDS a year ago, will strollacross the street to treatments.
Salazar, 41, will be one of the first tenants of the Godparent House, 16 apartments on Miami Beach for men, women and families living with HIV or AIDS.
Opening dedications will be at 5:30 p.m. today for eight of the one-bedroom apartments at 725-735 Alton Rd., across from South Shore Hospital.
The first tenants are expected to move in by Oct. 1. The rest will move in later next month.
Godparent's two cream-colored buildings sit on South Shore House property. Patients stay at the apartments while being treated at the hospital's Model Community AIDS Program. The United Foundation for AIDS, the program's fund-raising arm, raised about $600,000 -- all private donations -- to renovate and furnish the apartments and buy back the property from the hospital. It still is $400,000 shy of its goal.
Members of the Society of Interior Designers' South Florida chapter decorated the units for free.
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