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.

The 43rd District reported 39.6% turnout this month. Inside it, precincts ran from 16.8% to 69.0%.

Mayor Katie Wilson has appointed Zahoor Ahmed — a career hotel-finance executive who has chaired the boards of Visit Seattle, the Downtown Seattle Association, and the Washington Hospitality Association — to the public board that governs the convention center. The council confirmed him nine to zero on July 14.

The convention center's new safety hub is nearly open — and it turns out there was nothing to hide.

The contempt for AI "slop" is earned — but aimed at the wrong thing. The problem was never that a machine helped; it's whether the work punches up, is sourced one claim at a time, signed, checkable, and disclosed for a reason.

EVENT RAP freestyled the commons argument at the Arch. The op-ed landed in The Urbanist. And a GeekWire piece from Sammamish asks a question that lands closer to home than it looks.