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Storefronts Seattle, in partnership with the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, seeks applicants for temporary art installations, residencies and creative enterprise projects to enliven vacant storefronts in Seattle’s Pioneer Square and Chinatown-International District neighborhoods in addition to other locations. Selected artists will have...
SDOT announced citywide changes to parking, but it seems like Pioneer Square is getting the worst of it. Sure, other neighborhoods are facing the same increases in rates and hours, but if we needed to, I'd be willing to pit our neighborhood against any of...
IMAGE[s] OF THE WEEK: image source and of course, I had to include one of the 619 taken by WSDOT: NEWS Fire damages Pioneer Square building Sunday evening (Seattle Times) "The fire, which started at about 5:40 p.m. in the 200 block of First Avenue South, was deemed an accident,...
Guest Post by Redd Walitzki (Seattle Artist - candygears.com) It's hard to imagine that in two years time, the window I'm painting by won't exist. The cars rushing past me on the viaduct, the bubbling stream of voices from the Underground tour, and the comforting pink glow...
I feel kind of lame posting the same angles (but new photos) again, but to be fair, we went out walking in the neighborhood and only made it as far as the Information Booth in Occidental Square Park before we ran into some tourists from...
The eviction of artists at 619 Western has been all over the news the past week or so. Just last week, representatives from WSDOT reportedly stopped by the building during the artwalk to check out the artist studios that are planned to be torn down by...
I'm an east coaster, so I'm a big fan of the snow. And of scenes like this: So if we do get snow on Tuesday, here's what Metro says you can expect: There is snow in the forecast for later in the day on Tuesday – and...
IMAGE OF THE WEEK Photo of a stranger taken during this month's art walk by smastrong: NEWS Isilon, Blue Nile moving to Pioneer Square (Seattle Times) Wow.. go Pioneer Square. 2 huge companies coming in to take up almost 170,000 sq ft of office space. Developer Justen starts own firm...
Tomorrow will be a big day for 67,000 Seattle Seahawks fans attending the team’s wild card playoff game against the defending Super Bowl Champion, the New Orleans Saints. Football enthusiasts are expected to start arriving at Qwest Field as early as 10:30 a.m....
The Alliance for Pioneer Square (TAPS) and OED recently came together to request a study of Pioneer Square business owners + professionals to find out more about the local economy of the upper-floor businesses and the retail needs of its workforce. The survey was operating on...