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Motel enters into ‘grasp lease’ with Jeffco to accommodate homeless

Motel enters into ‘grasp lease’ with Jeffco to accommodate homeless

When an inside designer’s plan to create a boutique motel fell via, the motel turned a a spot for households experiencing homelessness.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Some components of life will be deliberate, however Lauren Coleman had little preparation for this chapter of life. 

“I am due subsequent week,” stated Coleman, who was greater than 9 months pregnant when she did an interview with 9NEWS. 

The child wasn’t deliberate, and neither was the enterprise mannequin for the White Swan Motel. 

The inside designer had traders lined as much as fund her redevelopment of the West Colfax motel in Lakewood. She deliberate to show it right into a luxurious boutique motel with shoppable artisan issues made by native companies in every room. 

“And I misplaced all of that,” stated Coleman. “It was a Friday the thirteenth, the start of the pandemic, in March of 2020, and it mainly was like look we will’t take a danger on you.” 

When that dream was placed on maintain, Coleman discovered a brand new one. 

“In very fundamental phrases I’m a landlord to the county,” she stated about her new plan. 

Coleman nonetheless plans to redevelop the motel years down the highway, however she presently coming into right into a grasp lease with Jefferson County Human Providers to accommodate households with children experiencing homelessness. The county pays the hire. 

“The county was utilizing these motels to position folks already,” stated Coleman. “That relationship was established, however formalizing it and saying no you’ll use all of the rooms each month for this precise function and right here’s the requirements I’m going to uphold, that has not been carried out earlier than.”

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Jefferson Co. Human Providers says by having this grasp lease with Coleman, they can pay considerably much less per room. 

They name what’s taking place a pilot program, one which fell into their lap when Coleman reached out. 

“We imagine this might work, however are going into it saying let’s see if this works,” stated Lynnae Flora, the deputy director of Human Providers in Jefferson County. 

They’re presently paying for this system with federal funds and cash from the Group First Basis, however they would want extra funding to make it everlasting. 

A part of the grasp lease means Coleman has to maintain the motel as much as sure requirements, which she stated weren’t being met when she purchased the place this previous August. 

“I imply we had been in full hazmat fits, there have been needles on the ground, the carpet was I don’t know, 50 or 10-years-old, but it surely was terrible what was on there,” stated Coleman. “The mattresses had blood stains on them. There [were] all kinds of issues on the partitions.” 

Now, the rooms aren’t fancy, however they’re clear and have plumbing and electrical energy that works. 

The county hopes inserting a number of households in a single motel makes outreach extra environment friendly and assets extra accessible. 

Flora stated they’ve information that households with kids positioned in shut places “profit from the social capital of getting one another as a useful resource on website.”

Coleman nonetheless has plans to observe her dream of redeveloping the motel, but it surely now features a new dream. 

“I’m looking to buy one other piece of land, actually constructing out a shelter kind of mannequin and having or not it’s funded by the boutique motel,” she stated. “You will be for revenue and in addition for function, and I like that expression so much.” 

Coleman had her child on Dec. 14 and she or he packed her work pc in her hospital bag to verify issues on the motel hold operating easily.

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