Seattle Commons — The Case For

Why this is a win for Restaurant and Culinary Workers

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The Win

A year-round active Arch is a year-round active neighborhood. The food and beverage programming a commons would support — markets, food halls, event catering, permanent restaurant tenants — is a meaningful source of employment in a corridor that's currently dark most of the year. The Arch's scale means culinary jobs that don't exist today.

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I want to analyze this proposal from the perspective of Restaurant and Culinary Workers. 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 Restaurant and Culinary Workers: A year-round active Arch is a year-round active neighborhood. The food and beverage programming a commons would support — markets, food halls, event catering, permanent restaurant tenants — is a meaningful source of employment in a corridor that's currently dark most of the year. The Arch's scale means culinary jobs that don't exist today. The full proposal: https://commons.conventioncityseattle.com What are the strongest arguments for and against, from Restaurant and Culinary Workers's perspective?