A recent email from the DSA: Dear Downtown Residents and Families, The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) is developing a grant application to the City of Seattle to construct a children’s playground in Downtown, and we need your help. Today, there are more than 3,000 children living in Downtown...
Pop Artist Troy Gua pokes fun at the ‘Seattle Freeze’ at SOIL Art Gallery (Culture Mob) Is Seattle really that cold? Is it really so distant? Is the ‘Seattle Freeze’ a real phenomenon? At least one local artist thinks so. Local pop artist Troy Gua‘ s...
Celebrate the last hours of 2011 and welcome in a new year by joining us for our special New Year’s Eve Underworld Tour & Celebration! The Underworld Tour is an adult-oriented guided tour of Seattle’s underground replete with the tales of graft, opium, sex, debauchery...
Three foreclosed Pioneer Square buildings sold (Seattle Times) Canadian investors have acquired three historic buildings in Seattle's Pioneer Square — for about half what the previous owner paid four years ago. An affiliate of Seattle residential-developer Intracorp lost the buildings to foreclosure this year. Pioneer Square to...
I was out of the country all last week and never had the chance to post that on the blog. But I'm back and refreshed and should have a bunch of posts coming this week. Thanks! Jen...
The Seattle Times has a new article out titled "Planned Stadium Place tower a game changer:" The developers of part of CenturyLink Field's north parking lot are unveiling the first detailed designs for their project's first phase this week — including a 25-story apartment tower that...
Just a reminder that there is still some space to sign up for O'Crafty Night for this and next Thursday: Celebrate the holidays in Downtown Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood by making a craft so cool, you can give it to someone other than your mom! (But...
Alaskan Way Viaduct to be partially closed Monday night (Seattle Pi) The Alaskan Way Viaduct's southbound lanes will be closed from Monday night to Tuesday morning between the Battery Street Tunnel and the West Seattle Bridge. Viaduct project gets its own museum (Seattle Times) Called Milepost 31, it...
I also shot a time lapse of the people walking through Art in the Park on First Thursday. I didn't know if I had it framed right, but hoped that I caught the fireworks from the Seahawks game -- and I did! Not as many vendors...
Although it was already dark by the time 5pm rolled around, the atmosphere in Pioneer Square was merry and there were people wandering throughout Nord Alley (for caroling) and in Occidental Square Park. This time lapse video isn't perfect (my timer wasn't working, so I had...