Why this is a win for Bob Kettle (D7 — Downtown, Belltown, Queen Anne)
city council
The Win
The Arch is in your district. 435,000 square feet at 8th and Pike — the heart
of Downtown Seattle — sits dark 250 days a year while your constituents live
and work around it. Your primary focus is public safety: empty buildings are
public safety liabilities. Activated civic space is the opposite. A year-round
commons at the Arch is the single largest intervention in downtown activation
available, and it's at the intersection of every issue your district faces:
safety, economic vitality, civic identity.
The fiscal case is also yours to own. The PFD's fragile finances are a risk
to the lodging tax structure that funds Seattle's hotel competitiveness — a
concern that runs directly through Belltown and South Lake Union. A structured
acquisition now is cheaper and cleaner than an unplanned crisis later.
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I want to analyze this proposal from the perspective of Bob Kettle (D7 — Downtown, Belltown, Queen Anne).
There's a civic proposal to convert the WSCC Arch building at 7th & Pike into a year-round public commons operated by Seattle Center.
The case being made to Bob Kettle (D7 — Downtown, Belltown, Queen Anne): The Arch is in your district. 435,000 square feet at 8th and Pike — the heart
of Downtown Seattle — sits dark 250 days a year while your constituents live
and work around it. Your primary focus is public safety: empty buildings are
public safety liabilities. Activated civic space is the opposite. A year-round
commons at the Arch is the single largest intervention in downtown activation
available, and it's at the intersection of every issue your district faces:
safety, economic vitality, civic identity.
The full proposal: https://commons.conventioncityseattle.com
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