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GiveBIG to the Alliance for Pioneer Square!

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The Alliance for Pioneer Square’s work is critical to the trajectory of Pioneer Square. Everyone benefits – businesses, property owners, employees, residents, and visitors. Your financial support ensures our continued success. We ask for charitable donations only once a year. Not another golf event or breakfast. Just one day of giving on-line. The Alliance participates in GiveBIG, Seattle’s biggest day of charitable giving.

Help us to maintain our momentum, if you give between now and midnight May 3rd, any gift up to $2,500 will be stretched through matching contributions from the Seattle Foundation.

Visit the Alliance for Pioneer Square’s GiveBIG page (http://bit.ly/GiveBigPioneerSquare) and GiveBIG today!

Thank you in advance for your support.

Pioneer Square Spring Clean 2016

It’s that time of the year again, Pioneer Square Spring Clean!

Every now and then, every neighborhood needs a little extra TLC. Join your neighbors, co-workers, and community partners in sprucing up Pioneer Square, Saturday May 7th, 2016! Tackling a number of projects, like weeding, garbage pick-up, a walking audit, graffiti paint out, and removing all those outdated posters from our historic light poles is what it is all about. This is a great opportunity to get involved in your community and be a part of something tangible and impactful. BONUS!!! Coffee and breakfast snacks will be provided. Plus, you’ll get some awesome swag to keep yourself looking and feeling cool! All ages welcome.All you need is a can-do attitude and be willing to get down in the weeds, literally.

WHEN | Saturday, May 7, 2016, 8:30AM-12:00PM

WHERE | Occidental Park – 117 S Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104

If you plan on bringing a team of volunteers from your business, apartment building, or community, please register at the link above and let Carl[at]pioneersquare.org know so he can keep you grouped together.

Curb Ramps on Yesler!

ADA Improvements Continue

We’re happy to report on two new curb ramps on Yesler Way between 2^nd and 3^rd Avenues, right outside the Pioneer Square Link station entrance. For the longest time, there has been a mid-block crosswalk at this location, with no accessible way to get across for people with disabilities. What’s even more exciting is that these curb ramps were installed with cast iron truncated domes (those pads with all the little bumps before you enter the street). The cast iron meets ADA requirements and fits in with the look and feel of Pioneer Square. This work was requested by the Alliance for Pioneer Square and funded by the Seattle Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Street Fund (which funds community requested transportation projects). Additional funding for the curb ramp design came from a federal grant which is funding more curb ramps for 2017 construction.