Public Testimony: “I found myself shaping the future of Seattle. My work ensure the positive impact on our community.”
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Public testimony: “Ambassadors are essential and valuable. Please renew MID”
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Public testimony: “The work MID has done is incredible. They engage marginalized communities with dignity and respect.” #MID #Renewal #DSA #MetropolitanImprovementDistrict
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DSA President & CEO Jon Scholes: “MID ambassadors are on the ground 7 days a week, 362 days a year working to keep downtown clean and safe.”
The stats below capture MID’s impact in downtown over the last decade. #MetropolitanImprovementDistrict #DSA #DowntownSeattle
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Great turnout at City Hall today in support of Metropolitan Improvement District renewal. #MID #DSA #RenewMID #DowntownSeattle #MetropolitanImprovementDistrict
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1/2 The foundations for the future ramp and direct connection between Pike Place Market’s MarketFront & the Overlook Walk is coming along! We’ve built below-the-surface foundations and columns, set girders, installed reinforcing steel and poured concrete.
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At first, Kimberly thought the DSA/MID Clean Team was a group of volunteers cleaning up the community. She was interested. Kimberly discovered they were actually hiring, and she gained much more than a job.
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North America's first vertical convention center has been developed in Seattle! Check out this video by members @downtownseattle about the new addition in the 
of downtown: youtu.be/otf7flObSqA
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Downtown is still the center of arts and culture: In 2022, there were nearly 1,400 arts and cultural performances downtown, with more than half a million attendees. #SOD2023
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Across the center city, more than 130 new street-level businesses opened in 2022, with more than a third of them in the retail core. #SOD2023
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In 2022, downtown nearly 9.4 million unique visitors, more than doubling from 2020’s pandemic low of 4.6 million people. #SOD2023
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Hotel demand continues to improve: Every month in 2022 hotel nights sold exceeded the same month in 2021. #SOD2023
Operating 362 days a year, in 2022, Metropolitan Improvement District ambassadors removed 8,929 syringes, picked up 1,078,407 gallons of trash and leaves, and assisted 33,520 people with directions. #SOD2023
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Downtown continues to be the most populous neighborhood in Seattle with more than 104,000 residents — an increase of more than 70% since 2010. #SOD2023
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The opening of light rail to Seattle’s University District, Roosevelt and Northgate — along with major events in downtown — pushed Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail to record ridership numbers. #SOD2023
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Demand for transit passes surged from small businesses last year. DSA affiliate Commute Seattle saw small retail businesses jump to 57% of sales from just 34% in 2021. #SOD2023
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How do we get to work? More than 75,000 people took Commute Seattle’s latest survey, providing new insights into their demographics, where they live and what motivates their commuting behavior. Here’s what they told us. #SOD2023
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We can all do something to revitalize downtown. There’s no single switch, policy or action. It’s our collective actions and commitment over time. Let’s get to work. #SOD2023
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Embrace New Uses and Users: We should have the aspiration that this downtown is the easiest downtown in the country to open a new business. Today it is not.
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Do no harm: We’re competing with every other urban area, and everyone has more choices than ever. The best way to grow the city’s tax revenues is by getting our downtown firing on all cylinders.
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Return to office: We’re better together. Restoring balance and equilibrium between in-office and remote work will require flexibility, compassion, and an understanding that we’ll get further through collaboration and not conflict.
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Safe streets: We can have a thriving downtown core again or we can have a fentanyl market. We can’t have both.
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Four key areas of focus.
1. Make the streets safe, healthy and welcoming for all
2. Return more workers to the office
3. Do no harm
4. Embrace New Uses and Users and get much more aggressive about recruitment and incentives
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We will sustain and intensify our progress and momentum by staying focused on what we must accomplish together.
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Nothing we do or that we’ve accomplished downtown has really ever been easy, but it’s always been worth it.
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I draw inspiration from what we’ve achieved and accomplished as a downtown community throughout our history.
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State of Downtown address thread
Jon: As we consider the task ahead to revitalize our downtown, we still face some notable headwinds too. But just as with this exceptional Center, a revitalized downtown will be well-worth our best efforts. #SOD2023
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While every downtown neighborhood has gained population since 2010, South Lake Union and the Denny Triangle combined account for nearly 45% of downtown’s net residential population increase. #SOD2023
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Transformational projects: Last month local leaders broke ground on a $40M initiative to create an inviting corridor from the waterfront to Capitol Hill. The Pike Pine Renaissance is the culmination of years of planning and coordination, spearheaded by DSA and partners. #SOD2023
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Transformational projects: Built to meet growing demand for event and meeting space, the stunning new Seattle Convention Center Summit building nearly doubles the center’s size, adding 573,770 square feet of space. #SOD2023
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State of Downtown 2023 is in full swing with more than 1,200 DSA members, guests and city leaders gathering at the new Convention Center Summit building. DSA’s biggest event of the year offers great networking and urban insights from local and national speakers.
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“For those who are running for local office — or thinking of running — it’s pretty clear that voters are calling for a focused approach and urgent action on public safety,” DSA's Jon Scholes regarding and funded research seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l
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We've been busy planting – we’re up to over 65,000 plants installed to date as we make our way north to Belltown. New trees & shrubberies have been recently planted so they can be ready to bloom in their first spring & blossom this summer!
#waterfrontseattle #plants
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The latest episode of the Seattle City Makers podcast features Rachel Marshall from - her favorite concoction, perspective on running a business in the Emerald City and the European inspiration that has fueled a Seattle beverage empire.
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Here at Westlake Park celebrating the groundbreaking on the Pike Pine Renaissance project (capitolhillseattle.com/2021/08/pike-p)
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Downtown continues to emerge from the impacts of COVID‑19, and as it does, DSA is tracking key metrics on our Recovery Dashboard. Explore trends and storylines with our new monthly tool that helps tell data-centric and anecdotal stories of recovery.
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This week's #DowntownSummerSounds journeys across genres with Polyrhythmics, grooves to the soul/pop of 45th St. Brass, visits Warren Dunes' beach-rock happy place and jams as cover band The Aqua-Nets powers up hits from the 1970s to today. Full lineup: downtownseattle.org/dss
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