SEATTLE — Nearly a week after Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city will no longer tolerate open-air drug use and sales in the Little Saigon neighborhood, conditions at the notorious corner of 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street appeared largely unchanged.
Wilson said she is committed to ending the perception that illegal activity at 12th and Jackson is acceptable and that the city’s response will include arrests. Last week, the Seattle mayor’s office announced what it called a “new approach” to tackling what Wilson described as a city failure at the intersection.
Winni Messa, who lives in Little Saigon and catches the bus at 12th and Jackson, said the scene can be unsettling…