A county owned building in Hoquiam is still empty over a year after FEMA closed the COVID quarantine facility that was operating there.
A county owned building in Hoquiam is still empty over a year after FEMA closed the COVID quarantine facility that was operating there. The 6,000 square foot building sits between the fire station and city hall on 8th Street. At a recent county commissioners meeting officials said that since FEMA had provided hundreds of thousands of dollars for building improvements, they had a stake in the building and could pull back those funds if the county repurposes the building before FEMA officially “closes out” the project. The county will wait until the federal government releases the property, and a timeline for that to happen has not been established.