Revitalize Pioneer Square: Demand Real Action!

Anything to improve this neighborhood

Your bus plan is highly flawed. You can do better than this!

This plan will negatively impact business that are already fragile.

Please save our city!

Please help us make our community stronger and safer

I didn't feel the plans for the development of bus lanes are taking the true value of Pioneer Square into consideration. Please consider alternative plans and try to understand the role this historic neighborhood can play in Seattle's future. Thank you.

Pioneer Square is the only area in town with the type of historic character that rivals the eat coast. We must do anything we can to help businesses thrive here

transportation is not equivalent to revitalization

Let's bring PSQ back to life! Small businesses deserve to thrive as we've put all our faith, time and money into this neighborhood.

We need action by city’s lead. Plan for three years Action completion date How we achieve it. Where we bring the money from? Who in charge of each task? Plan -Do- Review If no help, we will die with big financial loss which is a waste for Pioneer Square.

Do your job!!

I have been in business in Pioneer Square since 2009. These routing and bus layover changes will put my business completely over the edge. It’s time we get the actual recognition as a neighborhood that we deserve and have worked so hard to accomplish.

I, along with four family members visited Pioneer Square in May during a visit to Seattle as we have been doing since the 90s. As a Washingtonian, UW alum and artist from a family of artists, art is a significant destination for all of is. Art and culture is what keeps us coming to Seattle where we spend money at hotels, restaurants, retail and entertainment establishments. The proposed changes to make Pioneer Square a bus hub would diminish our likelihood to invest in future visits to Seattle.

The arts represent the vitality of the downtown and surrounding neighborhoods. As part of the small business community, the reason to improve on bringing visitors to the area is for the complementary small businesses that sustain the history of our iconic city that are open 7 days a week. Don't force the closing of businesses by continuing to make PS a pass through neighborhood that is unsafe and frustrating for the locals to regularly patronize 7 days. Instead be supportive in keeping local businesses thriving. For the amount of ingenuity and 'smarts' in this city, can't we think beyond this narrow vision? Projecting innovation?

Dividing lively, diverse and community engaged downtown neighborhoods with “efficiency roads” Is what kills those businesses and neighborhoods. And this unfortunately, is an often used and misguided template for city “urban renewal.” It is, more accurately, urban destruction. (See Robert Caro’s book, The Power Broker). Seattle has a choice. Let’s use this opportunity to break away from a ruinous design and listen to the voices of the people and businesses in this neighborhood - and do it differently. The arts and galleries are a huge destination point for tourists. Make a plan that supports the livelihood of the businesses and people that are already there and expand to include your other goals in ways that build on them, rather than sacrificing them.

How about listening to the people that will be mostly effected by these changes?

The city has got to do better in supporting local businesses. This kind of takeover is not in the interests of of these long standing art galleries.

I vehemently oppose this proposed plan.

These blocks represent the last remaining art galleries -- business that support artists and visual culture in Seattle, and artist-run nonprofits. They are currently choked by transit running circles all around them, while a concentration of social services unfortunately contributes an unpredictable factor, where it is common to see feces, fentanyl use, and unhinged behaviors. These non-profits and private-owned galleries are small capacity operations, where many of us work in the galleries alone. In the last few years, it has been feeling increasingly unsafe. It is difficult to get people to come to the neighborhood because of these issues. These galleries provide great public benefit. They are free and open to the public to see art. On First Thursdays, the neighborhood feels safer in its activation of numbers, and thousands of people are walking around. It seems like a lost opportunity in local commerce (business that sell products made right here), in public benefit, in the support of the economically threatened art scene, in activation of a beautiful historic neighborhood to run so many buses in this area. Please protect this area and join us in enjoying Seattle's art and culture!

I wish the city would do more to help rather than hinder small businesses