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Seattle, state look to join King County in multimillion dollar Washington State Convention Center bailout By David Gutman, The Seattle Times
Published: January 29, 2021, 12:23pm
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The city of Seattle and the state of Washington are looking at joining King County in a possible $300 million bailout of the troubled multibillion dollar Washington State Convention Center expansion.
The $1.9 billion convention center project, begun in 2018, has been in financial disarray for most of the last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the hotel tax revenue that funds the project.
The Pine Street Group, the project’s developer, has threatened that construction could shut down this year if a plan isn’t secured to fill the $300 million budget gap, leaving a half-built steel and concrete skeleton in the heart of downtown Seattle.
Green Metropolis:
When a French-American salvage expedition, beginning in the mid-1990s, retrieved items from the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, none of the thousands of recovered articles gold and silver wrist- and pocket watches, buttons, bracelets, jeweled necklaces, rings, tiepins and hairpins, gold pince-nez spectacles, leather goods, several hundred English coins, ivory combs, mirror cases, and hairbrushes included anything made of plastic, the first truly modern form of which, Bakelite, had only just been invented when the ship set sail.
If, say, one of Princess Cruises massive consumption ships sank today (nearly 110 years after the Titanic s first and last trip) and was not recovered for 100 years, our distant and possibly more environmentally enlightened descendants would be appalled by the thousands upon thousands of articles cell phones, headphones, microphones, blow-dryers, vibrators made of petroleum-based plastic.