10 May Pioneer Square in the News

NEWS

Pioneer Square drug sweep targets cocaine dealers (Seattle Times)
A months-long investigation into Pioneer Square’s open-air drug market culminated Tuesday in a sweep of Seattle’s historic district, with officers rounding up some of the neighborhood’s most prolific sellers of crack cocaine. The operation identified 27 suspects, 15 of whom were in custody as of early Tuesday evening.

Crackdown on Pioneer Square drug dealers should be just the start (Seattle Times Editorial)
A community-inspired roundup of chronic drug dealers in Pioneer Square is an important step toward revitalizing a neighborhood troubled by a sense of menace and crime.

The case for revivalist architecture in Pioneer Square (Crosscut)
With a number of large sites waiting to be developed, it’s time to ditch Modernism and mesh with the neighborhood’s historical style.

Sounders grope toward a new style of play (Crosscut)
Playing the undefeated LA Galaxy, even at home, the Sounders’ worked on a new ball-control-and-possession offense. The home team lost, 4-0, but there are five months to go in the long season.

Best Kept Secrets of Seattle, WA (Gather)
Highlights of Pioneer Square that include the underground tour and the Thursday art walk. A second write up is here.

Seattle salon collects hair to help fight oil spill (King5 News)
Pioneer Square’s Studio 904 has been sweeping up all the leftover hair each night for several years and sending it off to a California company that turns it into oil absorbing pads and boom. Studio 904 will accept human and pet hair from any organization of people who want to bring it in. They are located at 401 1st Ave S.

Seattle clean alley program leading to rat problem (King5 News)
Any food waste in a bag is a bad idea. Now, the city wants to move away from plastic bags and put food waste in small garbage cans called toters. It will keep the rats at bay, and that’s just fine with people who walk on Seattle streets.

Flowers of paper and glass (DNews)
Exhibit features work by two longtime Palouse artists and friends and is exhibited permanently at the Glass House Studio in Pioneer Square.

BLOGS

Happening Right Now: Film Crews Getting in the Way of My Lunch (Voracious)
If, like me, you were down in Pioneer Square this afternoon looking for a little lunch, you probably saw the cameras, the cables, the film trucks and the nattily dressed men in their porkpie hats.