Amazon HQ Set to Open Homeless Shelter

The shelter will be run by Mary's Place, a nonprofit that has worked with the company for years. ‘Mary's Place’, Marty Hartman’s organization, is a nonprofit that provides shelter for homeless families in Seattle. It had been operating a shelter out of a Travelodge hotel on Amazon's campus since 2016. The stay was supposed to be temporary, since Amazon planned to renovate the building for its own use. But then Amazon offered her space in their HQ and Hartman expects to move into the new space sometime in the first quarter of 2020. 

When the shelter opens, it will have the capacity to serve 275 people each night. That's a small portion of the local homeless population — about 12,500 people in King County, where Seattle is located — but it's expected to be the largest family shelter in Washington state.

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