“Seattle Crime Keeps Tech Workers Away as Police Move in,” read a Bloomberg headline in April. Shootings are up by 20% in downtown this year compared to 2021.

SEATTLE — For more than a year after Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his Downtown Activation Plan, it seemed like nothing would work. He threw the kitchen sink at making downtown Seattle look ...

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Then, in 2021, it rebounded, surpassing the number of occupied apartments from pre-pandemic times — and downtown made up almost half of Seattle’s overall apartment-occupancy increase for 2021.

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- WeatherWidget.ioDowntown foot traffic hit yet another milestone last month. The Downtown Seattle Association says March averaged 101,000 daily workers, the highest average since March 2020. The ...

It's a classic glass half full dilemma. Tonight, the downtown Seattle Association's view on what they see as the city's comeback, with reporter Steve Higgins taking us inside the numbers.

Seattle’s initial streetcar network was dismantled in 1941, as cars started taking people to the suburbs. Fewer people wanted to live downtown — or at least fewer people with disposable income.

In the third quarter of this year, Seattle police arrested 62 people downtown for violating the city’s drug ordinance, about double the number they arrested in spring. The King County Sheriff ...