Seattle Commons — The Case For

Why this is a win for Alexis Mercedes Rinck (Position 8 — citywide)

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The Win

You chair the Human Services, Labor, and Economic Development Committee. The Commons is an economic development story told in the language of labor: union construction jobs to convert the building, union operations jobs to run it, year-round event labor for every activation. The King County Labor Council and Building Trades are natural endorsers — and their endorsement signals to the full Council that this is a job-creating investment, not a civic abstraction.

The progressive revenue angle is also yours: this is a publicly-financed asset creating publicly accessible space. The people who currently fund it through lodging taxes — visitors and tourists — largely can't access it. Correcting that imbalance is exactly the kind of structural equity argument your committee is positioned to make.

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I want to analyze this proposal from the perspective of Alexis Mercedes Rinck (Position 8 — citywide). 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 Alexis Mercedes Rinck (Position 8 — citywide): You chair the Human Services, Labor, and Economic Development Committee. The Commons is an economic development story told in the language of labor: union construction jobs to convert the building, union operations jobs to run it, year-round event labor for every activation. The King County Labor Council and Building Trades are natural endorsers — and their endorsement signals to the full Council that this is a job-creating investment, not a civic abstraction. The full proposal: https://commons.conventioncityseattle.com What are the strongest arguments for and against, from Alexis Mercedes Rinck (Position 8 — citywide)'s perspective?
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