What we are doing…

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

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Working with Historic Seattle and Vanishing Seattle to save the historic Showbox Theater

Working with Vanishing Seattle to keep the iconic Elephant Car Wash sign in place along Denny Way

Working to preserve the Wayne Apartments as an anchor historic building for Belltown’s “main street”

Updating the City’s inventory of Belltown’s historic, iconic and character buildings

Developing a Belltown Historic Preservation Plan and Nominating Priority Buildings and Sites as City Landmarks

Nominating a portion of Belltown as a City Landmark to help tell the continuing story of the Duwamish Tribe and other indigenous people

 COMMUNITY AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

We are working with the city, landowners, businesses and the community to

Increase the supply of workforce housing to keep Belltown the home of the downtown workforce

Inventory and map Belltown’s community assets and public and private realms

Update the 1998 Belltown Neighborhood Plan the 1999 Belltown Neighborhood Plan Matrix and the 2004 Belltown Design Guidelines 

Maintain portions of 2nd Ave between Wall and Lenora as the heart of the Belltown and designate as an Arts and Culture district

Establish an Economic Development Management System that encourages development of great places to live, learn, work and play

Create the Belltown Underground — where new developments build underground spaces for people, not parking.  “BARS NOT CARS!”

Create a pedestrian alleyway (a “woonerf“)  with sitting and bar/restaurant/business access in the alley that runs from Mama’s to the Crocodile

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  • Initiate a formal, comprehensive neighborhood planning effort with the City of Seattle that allows Belltown residents, business owners, land owners to work together to shape a future Belltown that will still be Belltown…only better!

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