Seattle joins $16.4M effort to revitalize downtown
The city of Seattle, Downtown Seattle Association and Visit Seattle will together spend $16.4 million in an effort to revitalize downtown this year, the organizations announced Wednesday.
The money will be used to help small businesses, clean the streets, beautify downtown, add police patrols and provide support for people experiencing homelessness.
The effort comes as foot traffic downtown is beginning to tick up after about 15 months of pandemic-related restrictions and business closures. The city, along with the rest of the state, is set to fully reopen next week.
The plan aims to bring workers, small businesses and visitors back to downtown, “the economic engine of the region,” as the Downtown Seattle Association called it. For the purposes of this work, the city is defining the downtown as the area that spans from Interstate 5 to the waterfront and from the Seattle Center to the Stadium District.
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