Mount Airy site may shelter homeless: The city is in talks to use the former Spring Garden College campus to house 150 women and children.

Byline: Tina Moore

Feb. 21--A sprawling campus in Mount Airy that in the past has been home to a school for the deaf and a college could next provide shelter for 150 homeless women and children. "This wouldn't just be a shelter plopped into the community," city Managing Director Pedro Ramos said yesterday. "We hope that it would be a campus for job and life-skills training." The campus, in the 7500 block of Germantown Avenue, between Cresheim Valley Drive and Allens Lane, is the home of the New Covenant Church. In the past it has been home to Spring Garden College, which closed in 1992, and to a school for the deaf. The city, which has been struggling with a …