Seattle requires Amazon to allow free speech in future courtyard, amid larger debate over company’s impact
Amazon will be required to allow 24-hour public access and put up signs making it clear that free speech activities are permitted in a future courtyard that’s planned as part of the company’s building boom in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood. The Seattle City Council imposed those additional conditions on Monday as part of its 8-1 approval of Amazon’s request to take over an existing alley when it builds two office towers on the block that was the longtime home of the Hurricane Cafe, bounded by Bell and Blanchard streets and 7th and 8th avenues. Although the Council’s decision was ostensibly about vacating an alley, the… Read More
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