I’m a Seattle enterprise proprietor situated at Third Avenue and Union Road. Now we have been at this location for 30 years. In current weeks, I’ve had six staff complain to me that they don’t really feel secure right here and one worker who stated that he was embarrassed to inform his associates the place he labored.
I walked from our workplace to Pike Place Market at lunch hour within the midst of dozens of out-of-town guests, previous among the most disgusting avenue situations that I’ve witnessed right here since COVID-19. In every single place there was litter, drug use, loitering, filth, urine and feces, even deserted furnishings. I may hardly breathe, the stench was so revolting.
Lately we had enterprise colleagues go to from New York Metropolis, Chicago and Hong Kong. I couldn’t convey them to our workplace as a result of the road was so repugnant.
Seattle as a complete could also be enhancing, ever so slowly, however to let this block of Third Avenue proceed to spiral into the abyss isn’t honest to the companies which have persevered right here and proceed to pay Seattle B&O tax, or to the guests who frequent this space.
I implore Mayor Bruce Harrell to please do one thing!
Jeffrey S. Degen, Seattle