Renton’s Red Lion Hotel, which once housed hundreds of people in need, now sits empty and abandoned.
Homeless people living there during the pandemic were relocated to another shelter over a year ago, but the county’s property lease never ended.According to King County Executive Dow Constantine’s office, the county continues to pay property owners a flat monthly rate of $330,750.
In its heyday, the Red Lion boasted neatly made beds, plenty of event space, and even restaurants. Then during the COVID-19 pandemic, a fence went up and it became a shelter for more than two-hundred homeless people.Six months after that, Renton’s mayor and Executive Constantine announced the residents would be relocated. They planned to spend $28.6 million in taxpayer dollars on the Extended Stay Hotel five minutes down the road.
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