This just in from Storefronts Seattle founder overseer/forever friend o’ The Stranger Matthew Richter:
Starting this fall and winter, Storefronts Seattle will be installing projects along Broadway on Capitol Hill (from Pine Street to Roy Street) in vacant storefront spaces, in partnership with the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce. (It’ll also involve
Sound Transit money andBroadway Business Improvement Association money.)If you’d like a quote, I’d probably say something like, “Storefronts is here to protect the vitality and independent strength that Broadway has in spades. The fact that there are available retail spaces on Broadway, of all places, points to just how deep this recession is cutting. Storefronts is thrilled to be able to present work here and support an arts neighborhood and an artists’ neighborhood.”
You can see previous Storefronts artists and projects here, and look for new ones tucked here and there on Broadway before long.
Storefronts could come to Market St., east of 24th Ave NW.
Broadway is easy, Come on down to the rainier valley. We got a shitload of vacant storefronts.
A) of all, I’m not the founder, just carrying the torch for the genius folks who did invent this, and B) of all, Rainier Valley, we’re on our way, thanks to a new contract with SouthEast Effective Development (SEED). Look for the first projects to be launching later this Fall.
C) of all, @1, talk to your local Chamber of Commerce, BIA, or other neighborhood group about sponsoring us there. We’d love to.
Good luck to everyone involved. I very much the past installations.