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In early February, a comment about Pike Place Market by Seattle City Council president Debora Juarez set off a fresh round of discourse about downtown Seattle. “I don’t go to the Market anymore unless it’s Saturday, broad daylight,” Juarez said at an economic development committee meeting, adding that it’s “a real safety issue.”
Since then, the hot takes have kept coming. Some are, quite literally, “Seattle is burning.” Others inflame by throwing shade at concerns about crime and addiction. As the pandemic moved office types out of the city’s core, more and more of these narratives only guessed at the reality on the ground, where
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