Sally Clark and her legislative assistant David Yeaworth have been paying a lot of attention to Pioneer Square lately, including frequent walks in the neighborhood with Alliance for Pioneer Square staff, and supporting reduced parking hours, adding extra police patrols, and other initiatives listed here...
Near the end of April this year, URS completed a study looking at what it would take to reactivate the Waterfront Streetcar (including technical and political issues). I didn't actually read the entire 89-page report, but here is a summary of recommended reactivation strategies: While no major...
Last week, Council Members Burgess, Rasmussen and Clark met at Delicatus to listen to over 40 Pioneer Square residents and business owners talk about our many concerns for the neighborhood and how we feel the city should be helping. On Tuesday, Sally Clark, Tim Burgess, Tom...
Please join Mayor Mike McGinn, members of the Pioneer Square community and Comcast for a press briefing tomorrow at Seattle City Hall for the release of Mayor McGinn's Pioneer Square Recovery Strategy and Report to the Community highlighting the City's progress to...
Meet the City Council Candidates on June 15 and Ask the Questions YOU Want Answered! Join the Downtown Seattle Association on Wednesday, June 15 at Showbox at the Market to meet your City Council candidates in a fun "speed dating" style format. Five current city councilmembers are...
Council Should Adopt Height Increases to Strengthen Pioneer Square (PubliCola) Op Ed by Anne Fennessy and myself: We believe preservationists and residents want the same outcome: protected, quality historic buildings, fewer vacant lots and deteriorating structures, and more people in the Square. The City Council should...
Action Alert from DSA today: This coming Monday — April 18 — the City Council will make an important decision impacting the future of Pioneer Square, Chinatown and the International District. After four years of work — including 17 City Council meetings and dozens of public...
(alternate title: why I love Burgess and Bagshaw) City Council's committee on the Built Environment met yesterday to talk about a proposal to increase heights in Pioneer Square. Katie Zemsteff (DJC - subscription only) provided a good write-up from the meeting: Height limits in Pioneer Square are...
Jon Scholes, VP of Advocacy + Economic Dev't for the Downtown Seattle Association, asked this very question yesterday on citytank: In Pioneer Square, familiar arguments are being made against new density in the neighborhood, for fear it would erode the historic integrity of the...
Ty Myers has been at the front of the parking debate for Pioneer Square ever since he and a few other business owners manned the front row at DSA's parking forum a few months ago. During a sit down with SDOT, OED, and City Council...