The Renton Chamber of Commerce celebrated its annual Holiday Express Auction on Dec.6, raising $27,000.

“It went great. We had a great turn out,” said Sabrina Mirante, interim president and CEO. “We had a larger attendance than last year, 228 people.”

Attendees filled the downtown Renton Pavilion Event Center.

The most extravagant auction item was two tours of the Renton Boeing plant, which Mirante called unusual because they don’t normally give them to the public.

The event is the chamber’s fundraising gala of the season and usually attracts the who’s who of the city. Money raised goes toward the chamber’s operating expenses, and this year’s amount was about the same as last year’s.

The chamber’s charity of choice this year was the Renton Kiwanis Clothes Bank, to which it gave $5,000.

Chairman of the Board Jason Parker greeted all of the guests and Troy McVicker was the auctioneer.

“I would like to thank our sponsors, attendees and the community for supporting the event because without their support, we wouldn’t have such a successful event,” Mirante said.