AMAZON TO BUILD A 65 ROOM SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS.

The American electronic commerce and cloud computing  company ,Amazon made an announced on Wednesday  that the Seattle based company  will build a 65-room shelter to house 200 people right on the site of its new office building, where the old motel stands now.
In the words of the company's real estate vice president John Schoettler "We just started thinking big and said what if, what if we could do something like this?,"
He estimated it will cost the company tens of millions of dollars over the long term.

"Being inclusive, and having everybody be a part and all be neighbors together is important," Shoettler said. For Mary's Place, the gift is transforming.
The organization, which held a fundraising lunch Wednesday, has previously relied on temporary shelters. "It's pretty miraculous for us to have a permanent place, a place to bring families inside and never have to worry about finding that next building or that next shelter," said Hartman.

Amazon will help Mary's Place temporarily move residents from the old Travelodge to an old Day's Inn across the street when construction begins this fall.The new building, for both Amazon and Mary's Place, will open in 2020. In addition, Mary's Place fundraised Wednesday for a $1 million matching grant from Amazon, part of the Give Big campaign for local non-profits organized by Seattle Foundation.

Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online  book store , also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.

Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched.

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