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The Convention City Dispatch

Reports from Seattle's geographic center — the intersection of Downtown, Capitol Hill, First Hill, and Denny Triangle.

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The convention center's buildings and books, as a database

The District's audited statements, floor plans and event log, read from its own documents, where a figure opens the page it came from. Two pieces introduce the two doors.

Buildings
Twice the Space

The Summit more than doubled the convention center's floor, and business grew by two thirds, so spaces sit empty. Which ones, on which days? The floor plans and the event log as a database, so the question has an answer.

Accounts
Check the Work

The convention center's books and floor plans as a database, read from the District's own documents, where a figure opens the page it came from. Who built it, why, how, and what it does not claim.

The proposal

Open the Arch

The convention center's original building, open to the public on the days it has no event, with the people who live here helping decide what happens inside.

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C-STAR Opens. Its CEO Says It's Been in the Works Since January 2025.

The convention center's CEO dates the safety hub at 810 Pike to an idea in January 2025. Here is what the convention center said about it between then and opening day.

Special Report

The Seattle Archipelago

Every visitor pays a toll toward the temple of tourism. A series on who runs it — and who gets to choose the priests.

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