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The master plan

The Seattle Convention Center's campus master plan, as shown on the slides at the October 27, 2026 board meeting.

Updated November 6, 2026.

What is it?

A slide shown at the board's public meeting on October 27, 2026, is titled "Seattle Convention Center Master Plan" and credits LMN Architects. This page describes only what the slides from that meeting showed. As of November 6, 2026, the convention center's meetings page posts agendas and minutes but not the board's presentation slides, so the slides here are from photographs taken from the public seats.

A presentation screen showing an aerial map of downtown Seattle with highlighted routes and labels for C-STAR in summer 2026, 9th Ave in fall 2026, an Arch Lobby and a Midtown Gateway in 2027 to 2029, 920 Olive Way in 2027 to 2030, and Summit Market as ongoing, titled Seattle Convention Center Master Plan, LMN Architects
The master plan timeline slide shown at the October 27, 2026 board meeting.

What do the slides show?

The LMN slide is an aerial map of downtown with six labels:

  • C-STAR, Summer '26
  • 9th Ave, Fall '26
  • Arch Lobby, '27 to '29
  • Midtown Gateway, '27 to '29
  • 920 Olive Way, '27 to '30
  • Summit Market, Ongoing

The slide gives names and years. It does not say what the Midtown Gateway or 920 Olive Way would contain. See What is 9th Avenue?.

Who presented the rest?

The slides around it come from a consultant, Hunden Partners, in a presentation titled "Evolving Convention Spaces." One slide, "Hero & Halo," shows a convention center at the middle of a ring of labeled uses: coffee shops, retail, restaurants, bars, public spaces, hotels, entertainment, housing, sport facilities and academic buildings. Another, "SCC District Connectivity Means," maps surrounding neighborhoods and places. A third is titled "Utilizing Art, Light, and Programming to Form a Distinctive SCC District."

A slide headed "Seattle Master Plan Opportunity" says: "Develop and program a campus that unlocks real estate potential while enhancing the pedestrian experiences for residents & visitors." It follows examples from Cincinnati, Houston and Indianapolis.

What has been decided?

According to the Dispatch's report of the meeting, the board took no vote on any of it that day. Who adopts the final plan and when is not stated on the slides.

Sources: Seattle Convention Center board meeting, October 27, 2026, Room 402, Hyatt Regency Seattle: photographs of the slides taken from the public seats (LMN Architects, "Seattle Convention Center Master Plan"; Hunden Partners, "Evolving Convention Spaces," including "Hero & Halo," "SCC District Connectivity Means," "Utilizing Art, Light, and Programming to Form a Distinctive SCC District" and "Lessons for Seattle"); SCC, "Meetings & Minutes" page (seattlecc.com/governance/meetings-and-minutes), read November 6, 2026 (what the page posts); the Dispatch, "Dispatch from the Board Meeting: October 2026" (November 6, 2026). Every label and quote above can be checked against them.

Ivan Schneider is the founding editor of the Convention City Dispatch.

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