What we are doing…

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Poster-Trio

Current Projects

  • Working with Historic Seattle and Vanishing Seattle to save the historic Showbox Theater
  • 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 Indigenous Peoples in our neighborhood/city
  • Starting and building a Belltown Community Resilience Hub – a completely ground up, money-free, neighborhood  group intended to increase emergency preparedness, neighborhood connections, friendships, trust, and collective activities – and to just have FUN!
  • and ALWAYS standing by to stand up for historic Belltown buildings on the chopping block!!!!

 COMMUNITY AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

We are working with the Belltown community to accomplish the following goals.

  • Tracking City of Seattle zoning changes proposed for Belltown – and advocating for workforce and low-income Belltowners
  • Maintain an emergency communications HUB to build community resilience to disasters and loss of internet and other communications
  • Increase the supply of workforce and affordable housing to keep Belltown the home of the downtown workforce
  • Support social housing in Belltown under the City’s new development authority
  • Inventory and map Belltown’s community assets and public and private realms
  • Increase investment development benefits and decrease impacts by revising 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 AFFORDABLE Belltown   

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