Seahawks to provide much needed porta-potties during game weekends
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Seahawks to provide much needed porta-potties during game weekends

For anyone who lives in Pioneer Square, it is not a surprise that residents can be very wary of some of the sporting groups that don’t seem to realize that this is a neighborhood where people live (meaning that it’s ok to treat residential entryways as bathrooms).

I think most may agree with me that the Sounders fans aren’t too bad. Mariners don’t even seem to come through the neighborhood. So that leaves only one group — our beloved Seahawks fans.

A few of us have toyed with the idea of filming people as they leave the football games to prove how bad some fans can be. Residents in the Florentine (building just north of the stadium) routinely fill buckets of water in their kitchen, go down to the ground level and flush out vomit and other unpleasantness from their entryway.

Just a few weeks ago, I was walking in Pioneer Square with my three neices (ages 2 1/2 and 5) before a football game had even started, and watched two guys in their 20s step off of a bus and proceed to pee on the back of Main Street Gyros. I yelled at them that this was a neighborhood (they ignored me), and secretly hoped that I’d had my camera so that I could tell them they would be featured on the blog the next day. And this was before the game had even started.

As a result, Members of the Pioneer Square Residential Council and the Alliance for Pioneer Square met with representatives from the Seahawks to talk about it. The Seahawks agreed to add porta-potties in strategic locations around Pioneer Square the weekend of every home game. They have been up for the last two games and according to residents and businesses close to the stadium, it has worked out great.

So a big thank you to all involved (especially the Seahawks) for taking the necessary steps to better our neighborhood.

Next steps: working on the garbage leftover by tailgaters in parking lots + under the viaduct…   🙂

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