A nonprofit that had proposed opening a custodial care home housing about 100 federal inmates in Pittsburgh’s Banksville neighborhood has withdrawn its application.

Councilwoman Kim Salinetro, who represents the area, in a social media post said her office was notified last week that Louisville, Ky.-based Dismas Charities was not moving ahead with its proposal.

Dismas had been planning to convert the 14,000-square-foot Fraternal Order of Police headquarters — which sits on a roughly 10.6-acre site on Banksville Road — into a reentry facility for people leaving federal prisons.

The proposal was met with stiff opposition from Banksville residents who worried about housing federal inmates so close to homes, businesses and a local school.

“I don’t see how having sexual predators and human traffickers and violent criminals and drug abusers is the kind of people that should be here next to neighborhoods, elementary schools, adolescent counseling,” Banksville resident Deb Wiley told TribLive in April. “It’s just a concern for safety.”

Several residents pointed to prior problems at Dismas facilities elsewhere. In 2018, a man left a Dismas facility in Kentucky and fatally shot a police officer.

Representatives from Dismas vowed they would be good neighbors. They promised there would be security and random drug testing, as well as community outreach.

Dismas failed to convince the city’s Planning Commission, which voted against their proposal last month after several members peppered Dismas officials with questions about safety plans, staffing ratios and protocols in the event of an escape.

A hearing scheduled before City Council — which would’ve made the final determination on whether to allow the project to move ahead — was canceled after Dismas withdrew its application, Salinetro said.

Dismas did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday morning.

Dismas operates 40 re-entry facilities across 15 states and has served about 39,000 people in the last five years, according to Kathy Bellew, the group’s vice president of development.

Salinetro in a social media post thanked residents for sharing their perspectives on the plan.

“Community engagement and open dialogue are important parts of ensuring neighborhood voices are heard,” Salinetro wrote.

A real estate listing for the property shows the site is for sale for $1.7 million.

Robert Swartzwelder, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1, which represents rank-and-file Pittsburgh police officers, previously told TribLive the union was looking to downsize as its numbers have declined in recent years.