No more Marlow Manor

Once, in a New York City hotel lobby, he hugged Albert Einstein.

�When I met him, I kissed him like he was my father,� Jaen said. �To me he was very special.� Now it�s Jaen who seems special. Sitting alone at an antique table in the empty Marlow Manor dining hall a week ago, he longed for company. But nearly all of his fellow pensioners were gone.

Soon Jaen will go too, another casualty of the recent decision to close down this 2-year-old residence for seniors that occupies the bottom four floors of McKinley Tower, the 14-story high-rise (previously known as the MacKay Building) that owner Marc Marlow remodeled at Fourth and Denali.

Like most of the other elderly tenants at the manor, a 52-unit complex that never came close to filling up, Jaen received word at the end of October that he had 90 days to find a new home.


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