Pike Place Market Neighborhood?
Came across this great story today. The neighborhood of "Pike Place Market" was just named to the top ten list of best neighborhoods in the country by the American Planning Assosciation.
A few problems
- Pike Place Market is a market not a neighborhood. It is in between the West Edge, Downtown, and Belltown neighborhoods. I think there’s only a single condo building in the market and I don’t think that can make up an entire neighborhood.
- There is a picture in the article of "residents" enjoying Steinbrueck park. Umm, they’re either homeless (not a part of the neighborhood if you don’t have a home I guess?) or tourists. Again, this park is not a place that the residents hang out at.
- Over 10 million people supposedly visit Pike Place Market every year. I live in Alki and get sick enough of the ammount of people that come here in the summer, I couldn’t imagine that the "residents" of the "Pike Place Market community" would really enjoy that many visitors if they did in fact live there.
I wonder how this list was created, how Pike Place became a neighborhood, and really if there was any local research done on this piece. Lake Oswego also was named one of the best neighborhoods. Way to represent NW.
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yeah, sorry guys, pike place is not a ‘hood. IT’s not even hardly recognizable as a place in seattle during the summer, since it’s so overrun by cruise ship tourists.
i gotta say though, i wish i lived near there, if only so i could say i do my grocery shopping at pike place…