The new Summit Building, with a $2 billion price tag, will double the event space at the Seattle Convention Center (SCC) to 573,770 square feet. The grand opening ribbon cutting will be tomorrow.
It’s been a while since good news came out of downtown Seattle, but the opening of the convention center expansion is, by any standard, a huge step forward.Seattle Convention Center “The building really is an architectural statement, but it’s also very, very functional,” SCC President and CEO Jeff Blossor told MyNorthwest. “What we really want to do is have repeat business come back to the city.
Many people know it as a big glass box hanging over I-5 in downtown Seattle. It is in the heart of downtown near several large hotels, however, entertainment options are shrinking. The expansion was funded by a 7% fee on hotel rooms in the city and a 2.8% tax on hotel rooms in King County. $93 million of construction costs went to a public benefits program, according to Blossor. “$10 million for the renovation of Freeway Park and $40 million worth of low-income housing development. We’re redoing and helping improve the pedestrian and the bikeway for Pike and Pine all the way down to the waterfront,” he said
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