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Center City Connector – Oct 29 Open House – Save the Date!

CityCenterCorridorsAlignmentOptionsV3SAVE THE DATE!

The next Center City Connector open house is on Tuesday, October 29 from 5 – 7pm at Pike Place Market (location details below and on the website).

Mayor McGinn and the project team will give brief remarks from 5:30 – 6pm. Otherwise, the event will be open house-style, so come and go as you please. We’ll have light refreshments.

The purpose of the open house is to share the results of our final round of analysis – we’ll show how a streetcar on 1st Avenue would operate in mixed traffic versus its own lane. We hope you’ll join us to learn more and to share your feedback on the project.

If you have questions or would like to request any accommodations or interpretation for the event, please contact me at allison.schwartz@seattle.gov or (206) 386-4654.

 

LOCATION DETAILS:

Pike Place Market

The open house will be on the 3rd floor of the Pike Place Market Economy Building (above the section of the Market that houses the newsstand, Rachel the Pig, DeLaurenti’s, and mini donuts). We will be in the Elliot Bay Room and Atrium Loft space.

An ADA accessible entrance is located off of 1st Avenue, just south of Pike Street. Enter into the double doors of the Main Atrium, right next to La Vaca Burrito Express and take the elevator to the 3rd floor. We’ll have a welcome table right off the elevator.

Stairs are located just past Rachel the Pig, to the left of the Mt. Townsend Creamery booth.

The Market is a busy place – we’ll put as much signage out as we can to help guide you to the event!

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Puget Sound Energy natural gas relocation work taking place on South Jackson Street between Second and Third avenues

First Hill Streetcar Natural Gas Project MapInfraSource, Puget Sound Energy’s natural gas service provider, started construction today along South Jackson Street between Second and Third avenues (see map). The work is to relocate portions of PSE’s natural gas system in coordination with the construction of the Seattle First Hill Streetcar Project. We expect the relocation work to be completed on or around April 21, 2013.

Work, which is expected to take place Mondays through Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., will entail open trenching in the roadway, relocating the existing 2-inch natural gas pipeline out of the pathway of the streetcar tracks along South Jackson Street, working with adjacent natural gas customers to relocate service lines to their property, and site restoration. We recognize the inconvenience to the neighborhood, and will do our best to minimize construction impacts as much as possible, including discontinuing work during major events in the area.

For more information on this project and other natural gas relocation projects in the area, please visit PSE.com/Viaduct. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Todd Beckley, InfraSource project manager, at 425-765-0551.