Please review the letter below and complete the form to offer public support for a Stadium Makers’ District . The form also provides additional opportunities for you to get engaged.
Thank you!
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January 16, 2025,
The Honorable Sara Nelson,
Council President City of Seattle
600 4th Ave., 2nd Floor Seattle, WA 98104
Subject: Maker’s District and Housing in the Stadium District
Dear Council President Nelson,
We, the signatories of this letter and members of Seattle Made, a program of the nonprofit organization Seattle Good Business Network, have come together to voice our strong support for an amendment to the Seattle Municipal Code that will allow housing and Maker Spaces as part of the new Urban Industrial Zone applied last year to the Stadium District.
This is an exciting and rare opportunity to create a mixed-use district around the public stadiums, T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field, that prioritizes the development of much-needed maker spaces.
With nearly 700 member businesses, Seattle Made includes builders, bakers, stitchers, brewers, fabricators, and many other Seattle-based manufacturing businesses. A thriving manufacturing and production sector is essential to a vibrant, diverse, and sustainable city. Urban manufacturers and producers expand opportunities for local ownership and meaningful employment, build our region’s long-term resiliency, and celebrate Seattle’s unique cultural identity.
Seattle has a scarcity of available and affordable maker spaces for light industrial manufacturing and is forcing many of our manufacturing and maker businesses to leave the city, which is both an economic and cultural loss. Creating the proposed Stadium Makers’ District will fill a void, allowing dozens of light industrial manufacturing businesses to stay in the city, thrive, and contribute to our local economy.
Thank you for your leadership. We sincerely appreciate your role in championing local manufacturing businesses!
Proudly making it in Seattle,
