PITTSBURGH -- Hundreds of All-Star Week banners are hung around the city, crews are cleaning up city streets and sidewalks, and Pittsburgh is ready to shine.

But there is one thing that goes along with the city that visitors may not see during the All-Star Game festivities that is causing quite a controversy.

Pittsburgh and Allegheny County leaders have been making plans to get homeless people off the streets.

The plan is to usher the city's homeless to a temporary shelter inside the basement gym of the Smithfield United Church of Christ.

"They're setting up for a week to make sure everyone has an opportunity. But in that time, we hope we get them the help that they need," Mayor Bob O'Connor said on Tuesday.

The church is used as an emergency shelter during the winter months, but the Rev. Doug Patterson said this circumstance is different.

"It's too bad that it really comes to life that when we have outside visitors, so to speak, coming into the city everybody gets concerned about the homeless -- not so much out of concern for the homeless but as an image issue," Patterson said.

Nothing has been finalized. No contracts have been signed. But talks have been going on for weeks.

The shelter would be fully staffed by nurses, psychiatrists and trained volunteers.

The church has a fully equipped kitchen and bathrooms with shower and changing areas. However, it does not have air conditioning.

Some visitors from Las Vegas that Channel 4 Action News talked to said it's a horrible practice but they're not surprised -- their city does it, too.

"Visitors need to see both sides of the city -- that you have problems and that you have good things. And there should be something permanently done to help the homeless," Las Vegas resident Gail Entler said.

"As long as they're not a danger to anyone, they should be out on the streets. They have a right to be out here as much as anyone," Dave Entler said.

"I think it's our moral duty to help these people than to push them to the side," said Pittsburgh resident Todd Novak.