Seattle was voted the best World Cup host city in the country, and the only one where air travel fell instead of rose. The crowds that packed the waterfront were local — which is exactly the argument for running our convention center as Seattle's living room for the whole region, not a hotel-room machine.

Seattle just licensed twenty years of its public sidewalks to a Columbus billboard company. The neighborhoods that will host the kiosks were never asked — and the city is last in line for the money.

One Friday a month, downtown Seattle finds its rhythm. A dispatch from the February Fourth Friday art walk through the convention district.

The Seattle Sports Commission's Region Ready program is turning Pacific Place into a stadium annex. What that reveals about downtown activation — and who does it.