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Dallas buys Oak Cliff hotel to serve as COVID-19 quarantine location and housing for homeless people
Hotel Miramar is one of two hotels the city purchased with $10 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Health professionals attend to people waiting to be tested for COVID-19 at the Mountain View Community College testing site in Dallas in July. Dallas has recently purchased two hotels that will serve as housing for homeless people who have tested positive for COVID-19.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
Hotel Miramar on Fort Worth Avenue will soon house new clients homeless people who have tested positive for COVID-19 after the Dallas City Council voted to purchase the location last week.
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Dallas Purchases Two Hotels With $10 Million in Federal COVID-19 Relief Funds. The plan is to use Hotel Miramar on Fort Worth Avenue and the Candlewood Suites off Preston Road in far North Dallas to house homeless people with the virus. Later, a nonprofit will use the properties as rapid rehousing facilities. Neighbors of Hotel Miramar appear pleased with the new owner as the property had become a nuisance, resulting in 300 calls to police over the last four years. “While the city’s proposal may not turn this hotel into a Chipotle with a Trader Joe’s and Starbucks inside as some might prefer,” said neighbor Brad Nitschke, “it will stabilize this property’s decline and allow better eyes on what goes on inside.”