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London investor and land developer Shmuel Farhi wasn’t saying anything publicly Tuesday about the prospect of a supervised drug consumption centre across the road from his just-announced small business and tech innovation hub.

But if he hates the idea, the city’s top health official said the local health unit will listen to suggestions Farhi might have for locations elsewhere in one of the properties he owns.

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“It’s been hard to find a location. When you are dealing with people that own a lot of property, they may be more able to identify other potential sites that will work quite well and we’ve been quite open to that,” Dr. Chris Mackie, medical officer of health and head of the Middlesex-London health unit, said Tuesday.

The site has to meet a long list of criteria, he said.