Revisiting progress on Seattle’s Downtown Activation Plan

When the City of Seattle and Mayor Bruce Harrell introduced the Downtown Activation Plan, they did so with one overarching goal: bring locals back downtown after the pandemic shooed them away.

Now — a year after it was implemented — the City says it has been able to either make progress on or complete ~93% of those goals.

Here are a few of the initiatives the City’s been working on.

• Expansion of the CARE Department’s first responder program
• Passing legislation that creates new incentives for office-to-residential conversion developments
• Opened public spaces like City Hall Park, Hing Hay Park, and Urban Triangle Park
• A new standard that requires Seattle’s largest buildings to be net-zero by 2050
• New downtown networking events like Black Tech Night and the Good Drinks Program
• The commissioning of 60 new murals on downtown buildings

The full progress report can be found on the City’s website.