Alaskan Way Viaduct work zone expands into Pioneer Square and waterfront (WSDOT) For the past three years, construction has been confined to a work zone west of Seattle’s stadiums for the State Route 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project. Starting this month, though, state and city...
11-11-11: What are YOU going to do? Sing the BLUES for Veterans! (PI - Sassy City Girl) If you’re looking for a feel-good way to spend 11-11-11 in Seattle, but still want to have a great time, here’s a fun event that just hit my desk...
Sorry for the delay in posting this news roundup -- family in town. [caption id="attachment_3492" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="Photo credit: Instagram - Katrinka's Secret"][/caption] Delicatus: classic and inventive sandwiches (Seattle Times) Owners Derek Shankland and Mike Klotz opened this Pioneer Square joint almost two years ago, with the goal...
Due to Halloween festivities, I didn't come home to Pioneer Square until around 8pm, at which point, huge areas on 2nd and 3rd were cordoned off with police tape, and filled with police officers and SWAT vehicles: [caption id="attachment_3487" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="[excuse the bad quality --...
Seattle gets $900,000 federal grant for streetcar planning (Seattle Times) Officials are weighing whether the best route would take Fourth and Fifth avenues to favor commuters, or First Avenue to favor visitors and Pioneer Square merchants. (we want 1st Ave!) Commuters' viaduct questions still rolling in (Seattle...
Tea Party Launches Occupy Skid Row Movement (Huffington Post) Fed up with what they see as a preponderance of unpleasant poor people controlling the national agenda, the Tea Party has countered the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement with its own series of radical protest groups...
Seattle’s Pioneer Square has tech, needs tribe (GeekWire) With Zynga and now HTC joining companies like Isilon Systems, BlueNile, Yapta and Payscale there, Pioneer Square is proving it’s a place where geeks want to work. But until Seattle’s first neighborhood stays up past rush hour, it...
Pioneer Square is hot again (PSBJ) The historic Pioneer Square district already is home to numerous tech companies, including a small — and very hush-hush — HTC development studio. But the neighborhood known for its picturesque red-brick buildings is undergoing a major transformation as companies...
Seattle's Pioneer Square: a whole lot of building going on? (Crosscut) Paul Allen's sports operation strikes a deal with King County and developer Kevin Daniels, and lifts its opposition to a long-awaited apartment project between Pioneer Square and the football stadium. Stadium parking shift coming for Pioneer...
Our issues with the streetcar were recently featured on PubliCola and the Seattle Transit Blog. Originally, PubliCola stated the following: The only thing is, the city never “promised” Pioneer Square it would build the streetcar to their neighborhood. In fact, according to city staff, the city...