Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter within Its Seattle Headquarters
May 10 2017 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
First-of-its-kind facility will provide 24/7
shelter and services for more than 200 homeless women, children,
and families each night
Mary’s Place families and Amazon employees to
move in together in early 2020
Mary's Place announced today that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) will
donate more than 47,000 sq. ft. of space within Amazon’s newest
headquarters building as a permanent home for a Mary's Place Family
Shelter. This first-of-its-kind partnership will include 65 rooms,
which will shelter more than 200 homeless women, children, and
families each night.
“To have a permanent downtown Seattle location within Amazon is
a game-changer for Mary’s Place and the families we serve,” said
Marty Hartman, Executive Director of Mary’s Place. “We’ve loved
being Amazon’s neighbor, and now the opportunity to move into their
headquarters permanently is truly a dream come true. This unique,
first-of-its-kind shelter will remind families that they matter and
that their community wants to help them succeed.”
Watch footage of Amazon’s surprise announcement to Mary’s Place
Executive Director Marty Hartman
“Mary’s Place does incredible, life-saving work every day for
women, children, and families experiencing homelessness in the
Seattle community,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “We
are lucky to count them as neighbors and thrilled to offer them a
permanent home within our downtown Seattle headquarters – Amazon
employees and Mary’s Place residents will move in together in early
2020.”
In April 2016, Amazon provided Mary's Place with temporary use
of a vacant building on its growing urban campus – a former
Travelodge hotel. Amazon upgraded and decorated the building and
included utilities for more than 200 family members while awaiting
construction of a new building. Construction at 2213 8th Ave is
scheduled to begin in the fall, and Amazon will work with Mary's
Place to temporarily move the families to another former hotel
across the street as it builds this new, permanent home.
The new Mary’s Place shelter will include a family resource
center similar to those at Mary's Place Family Centers in North
Seattle and White Center where more than 40 local nonprofits and
teams of community and corporate volunteers join Mary's Place staff
onsite to provide services and work with families to help them
secure permanent housing and employment.
Amazon employees are frequent visitors and volunteers at the
existing shelter – bringing meals, organizing arts and crafts
projects, throwing parties for the families, and more. By sharing
permanent space with Mary's Place, Amazon employees will now have
even more opportunities to volunteer and support the organization
and the families they serve.
About Mary’s Place: Mary’s Place empowers women,
children, and families to reclaim their lives by providing shelter,
nourishment, resources, healing and hope in a safe community. They
operate several family night shelters that work to place families
in stable housing by providing employment, housing, financial, and
wellness resources. More info is available at
marysplaceseattle.org, https://www.facebook.com/marysplacewa,
twitter.com/marysplacewa
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Mary’s PlaceLinda Mitchell, Director of
Communications206-334-4687linda@marysplaceseattle.org
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