Last fall, FOX 13 spoke to a local company looking to bring change to that area. In a recent sit down with them, they say: it's working."We all thought that it would be simple. We would come in, and we would call the cops, and we would get it under control, and it would be a lot easier than it was," Hubbard said.
Instead, Hubbard and her company, Sage Investment, dealt with the dangers this property continued to present "Coming in and thinking that we could get that turned around in six weeks was a little bit naïve on our part," she said. In the near-year since Hubbard purchased the motel, officials have been working to make the city, and Hosmer Street, safer. . We’ve had businesses up and down the corridor starting to band together," said Tacoma City Councilmember Joe Bushnell, who represents the area where the motel is.
Bushnell said that with police focus and work from business owners like Hubbard, things are looking up. homicides are down so far this year by about 40%. The same data also says that assaults, arsons and burglaries are down citywide. , and the former motel-turned apartments is expected to start renting by late fall.
"I don’t know if we’re crazy or what, but we felt like here we actually got to have the ability to make a change," she said.