Another Seattle business owner is speaking out, having grown tired of the frequent crime and property damage traced back to local homeless people.
Frank Gillen, property owner of a now-former Bartell Drugs in Seattle, explained on “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH that he’s frustrated with the ongoing property damage due to the neighborhood homeless population that, he said, keeps breaking into his building. He said he’s been dealing with vandalism since the drug store closed.
Business owners’ cause for concern
Gillen complained that doing business in Seattle has become an endless battle of reporting property damage, then dealing with the costly clean-up.
“[The homeless] are constantly graffitiing [the building], spray painting, ‘tagging it.’ We have been painting [the building] over and over again,” Gillen said. “It’s non-stop, and then all four sides of the building have been targeted over and over again.”…