GLENS FALLS, N.Y. -- One year after the Open Door Mission purchased 226 Warren Street in Glens Falls, one of the opportunities the non-profit's leaders remain most excited about is being able to provide a permanent home from the city's emergency Code Blue shelter each winter.

Weeks into one of the coldest winters in recent memory, the first phase of construction on the project, which also includes a year-round shelter and space for programs, is just about complete, but the Code Blue shelter has yet to open for the season.

"We ran into a lot of complications and it has taken a lot longer than we thought," said Open Door Mission President and CEO Kim Cook.

The shelter, however, has a temporary home at the House of Grace on 33 Henry Street.

"The city agrees with us that this is an emergency situation and we can use this as a temporary solution," Cook said in a press release Friday evening. "Our staff got over there within hours to see what needed to be done and to move in cots. We will be open there on Saturday night at 6 [p.m.]."

Of the Warren Street shelter, Cook said $25,000 was originally budgeted for water and sewer repairs, but due to the disintegrated nature of the century-old building's pipes, the cost came in at four times that.

"We can’t open; we have no water and no sewer in this building at this point,” she said. “We are ready other than that."

While work continues to raise the extra $75,000, the soup kitchen on Lawrence Street is a temporary "warming station," which has welcomed an average of five guests during the 45 nights they've been open since early November. Zoning laws prevent them from using that space as a traditional Code Blue shelter.

"We can’t have it at the kitchen ongoing with beds because there are no sprinklers there, so we can only have it as a warming station for now," Cook said.

As they did with the first phase of construction, Cook is hopeful the community will help the non-profit raise the funds needed to finish the repairs.