When Bruce Harrell rises from his desk on the 7th floor of Seattle City Hall and saunters over to an adjacent west-facing deck, the new mayor looks out at some of the city’s most storied sights. The Arctic Club. Smith Tower. Puget Sound. But if he looks down, he has a bird’s-eye view of a bureaucratic pitfall: an undeveloped crater that spans a whole downtown block.
Earlier this year, Harrell inherited a political headache that a handful of predecessors failed to remedy. Since 2005, the city has struggled to secure new construction on the former Public Safety Building site at 601 Fourth Avenue. It’s more than just an eyesore.
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