Eighty recently homeless men and women are among the hundred moving into the faithfully restored 1923 Royalton Hotel in downtown Miami.
The Royalton, one of the last of the 1920s Land Boom hotels in downtown Miami, has been treated to a faithful historic renovation: From period doors and light fixtures to the poured terrazzo lobby floor, the formerly gone-to-seed building is once again a solid citizen on Southeast First Street.
Add wireless Internet and energy-saving upgrades and it's the kind of painstaking makeover you might expect for a loft conversion, or a boutique hotel, or a yuppie condo.
Only it's none of the above.
Instead, its new residents are people like Westley Hosey Jr., who lost his job and his home more than a year ago. Or Lillie Pierce, ill with diabetes and heart problems, whose previous address was the Salvation Army. Or Valencia Davis, who is nearly sightless and had been living, as she put it, ``from shelter to shelter, door to door.''
''It's like angels come in and saved me,'' Davis said.
The Royalton this month reopened its arched entranceway to its fortunate tenants -- 100 people with very low incomes, 80 of them recently homeless, many of them with disabilities.
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