Belltown community alarmed over drug den in abandoned eatery amid proposed law

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Belltown community alarmed over drug den in abandoned eatery amid proposed law
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As proposed legislation would make it easier to tear down dangerous vacant buildings in the city of Seattle.

A photo of a growing drug den located inside an abandoned restaurant in Seattle 's Belltown neighborhood. would make it easier to tear down dangerous vacant buildings in the city of Seattle .

Located at the 2200 block of 2nd Avenue, the old Mama's Mexican Kitchen restaurant has been vacant since 2016. In the years since, neighbors told KOMO News the building has become a hotbed for drug use and crime. Yet they said the city of Seattle has consistently failed to knock down the structure.In order to get the attention of city leaders, two nearby business owners, Jeff Granville and Kevin Dares, deliberately entered the building and recorded the extensive destruction inside of it.

It was truly horrifying and it really impacted me," said Granville, referring to the things he witnessed inside the building. "This is a mental health issue, either started by addiction and gone to mental health or mental health leading to addiction. " should be a place that’s protected instead of forgotten, which I feel happens quite often," said Jessica Norton, owner of a nearby salon.aimed at reducing vacant building fires in Seattle.

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