Seattle Commons — The Case For

Why this is a win for Eddie Lin (D2 — Chinatown-ID, Rainier Valley, Beacon Hill)

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The Win

The Chinatown-International District is three minutes by Link from the Arch. A commons operated by Seattle Center — with an explicit commitment to cultural programming — is a venue for AAPI community events, exhibitions, and gatherings at a scale that has never existed in downtown Seattle. The CID has fought for decades to have cultural presence in the city's civic core; the Commons is the first realistic path to that.

Your background is in the City Attorney's Office housing division — you know how public financing structures work and why they matter. The GO bond case for the Arch is a public finance story as much as a civic one: a one-time acquisition at a manageable debt service rate, preventing a much messier fiscal crisis in the PFD later.

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I want to analyze this proposal from the perspective of Eddie Lin (D2 — Chinatown-ID, Rainier Valley, Beacon Hill). 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 Eddie Lin (D2 — Chinatown-ID, Rainier Valley, Beacon Hill): The Chinatown-International District is three minutes by Link from the Arch. A commons operated by Seattle Center — with an explicit commitment to cultural programming — is a venue for AAPI community events, exhibitions, and gatherings at a scale that has never existed in downtown Seattle. The CID has fought for decades to have cultural presence in the city's civic core; the Commons is the first realistic path to that. The full proposal: https://commons.conventioncityseattle.com What are the strongest arguments for and against, from Eddie Lin (D2 — Chinatown-ID, Rainier Valley, Beacon Hill)'s perspective?
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