So, the obvious solution here is to extend the Pike Place Market Historic District, right?

Obviously we need to repurpose the maintenance corridors at the stadiums for this.

After all, our billionaires love Seattle, right?

Books are important, especially to prisoners who don't have access to the internet. Why does the facility have to close to transit? If all the books have to be mailed why not try some warehousing in some place that doesn't charge a huge rent?

I have never been to prison and don't know how it is. If books could be used to relieve the boredom of confinement and possibly be an educational tool it would be a great thing to help this organization find a home and some sponsors to keep it going.

@3, they need to be near transit because they are entirely dependent on volunteers to do the work. If you stick it in a remote warehouse too far from transit, you'd restrict your volunteer pool to only people who own cars.

@3 Warehouse space in the area usually starts around $1.30 sq/ft and goes from there. Cheap would be a buck a foot and likely not in a good place or near transit. Once all is said and done they'd be a grand-1500 a month in rent. Economically it makes sense to look at Tacoma but that may kill the volunteer pool even with the train down there.

Too bad there aren't any billionaires in town that could pay the rent for a cool project like this...

Interesting that everyone freaks out about the Showbox closing, but no one seems to give a shit about the University Christian Church, which has been the long-time home to many important community nonprofits and is now being demolished to make room for UW housing. Shows where the so-called progressives’ priorities lie.

If you need further proof that Seattle is a morally bankrupt city, look no further than this story

The King County prosecutor's office burns through over 90 million a year and the Sheriff office another 100,000 million + a year inventing new reasons to lock humans in cages.
We have billions for prisons and the entire incarceration industrial complex, but we just can't seem to scrape together a few thousand dollars in rent for this tiny project that actually has a positive impact in the world.
Since the people of Seattle seem always willing for dig deep to fund the police state, perhaps we should sell this project to them as more cages for more low level criminals? It's the one thing (other than for war perhaps) when all American come together to spend whatever it takes tax hikes be damned.

I rent a large rehearsal space in Fremont that's maybe 600 square feet, for 10k a year. Can't imagine it would be that hard to find a slightly larger space for 15k a year.