26 Apr Pioneer Square in the News

NEWS

Pioneer Square tailor serving customers for 3 decades (Seattle Times)
Pioneer Square tailor Be Van Nguyen arrived at Sea-Tac airport almost three decades ago with the clothes he was wearing, a small box containing a book, a pen, socks, a T-shirt and “not one cent in my pocket. No money. Nothing.”

Saving Pioneer Square by teaching it some old tricks (Crosscut)
Pioneer Square needs to get organized to revitalize itself. The Main Street program, which barely survived Olympia budget cuts, offers a tested approach that could bring small-town techniques to Seattle’s historic urban district.

Retail vacancies reach record highs (King5 news)
New numbers show more retail spaces are vacant across the country and Seattle is not exception.

Film being shot in Seattle will only be seen in Japan (NWCN)
The movie will only be shown in Japan, but you may catch a glimpse during the rest of filming in Seattle, which should take a few more weeks. The film crew is in Eastern Washington right now, but will return soon to Seattle to shoot some pivotal scenes in Pioneer Square.

BLOGS

Salumi Artisan Cured Meats – Seattle (Gas-tron-o-my)
A great review of one of Pioneer Square’s (not well kept) secrets: Salumi

Pioneer Square, Seattle (H-Visual)
Cool photographs of someone just “passing by.” My favorite:

Nightclub Owners Want Politicians to Be ‘Urbanist’, Just Without the Panhandling (Seattle Weekly)
Interesting point of view, but the comments might be more interesting.

First Call: Memories of Poor Choices Past at Aura (Seattle Weekly – Voracious)

Bad idea: Getting drunk, then going fist city with a cop (Seattle 911)

Urban Sketchers met up in Pioneer Square last Sunday (4/18). Click here for all of the Pioneer Square sketches. Here are two of my favorites:

And as always, check out the Events Calendar to find out what’s coming up this week.