by Courtney Crockett The late summer harvest is available now at our Pioneer Square/Chinatown-International District Express Farmers Market. Pick up your fresh melon, blueberries, blackberries, peaches or nectarines, apples and pears. Also tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, summer squash, a variety of peppers, and colorful beets. A seasonal bouquet...
PUBLIC SAFETY OPEN HOUSE Tuesday 11 August 2015 8 am – 6 pm 307 Occidental Ave S The Pioneer Square Residents Council, the Alliance for Pioneer Square and the Pioneer Square BIA ask you to share your thoughts and ideas about public safety in Pioneer Square. Input from our neighborhood residents,...
By Sarah Norton Lately there’s been a change of tempo in the Square – with new restaurants, shiny high rise condos, renewed energy in the parks, and lots of high tech startups humming in the ‘hood. Just sitting in any one of our coffee houses, you...
by Courtney Crockett AUGUST EVENT CALENDAR FRESH WEDNESDAYS FARMERS MARKET every Wednesday in August from 10 am - 2 pm. From 5 August through 30 September the Pike Place Market sets up an Express Market of local farmers and their fresh flowers and produce at King Street Station Plaza. PILATES IN...
by Courtney Crockett An all too brief and rare sighting of the new Seattle Streetcar today. Glad I was able to capture the moment. The new Streetcar rode in at the Occidental Park Pioneer Square station and quickly continued on to test the line heading east...
By Beth Berube On July 25th, Loggers and Lagers Pub Crawl partygoers paraded plaid panache in Pioneer Square. And what could be more fitting for the first annual pub crawl, than a theme linking a lumber mill from the past to the timber men that built...
By Beth Berube When I first heard about a new app that allows people to lend unused stuff from their closets and storage places to their neighbors, I was a little skeptical. But, I figured, what the heck…I should at least take a peek before passing...
by Courtney Crockett When out walking last night I ventured a look into the upper windows of King Street Station, and I could see tiny human forms still busy transforming the interior space for this weekend's gigantic art exhibition Out of Sight. In the true spirit of an arts community, King...
by Courtney Crockett As anyone who moves to Pioneer Square quickly discovers, the only grassy knoll available for dogs to romp and survey the world resides at Century Link Field. In moving here nearly 10 years ago, it immediately became my destination for walking my dogs...
by Beth Berube Mark your calendar! July 25th is the first annual Pioneer Square pub crawl. This year's theme is Loggers and Lagers in commemoration of the early years of this gem of a district. Yesler Avenue, once known as Skid Road, was home to Yesler's lumber...