Downtown Seattle continued to bounce back in 2025. What’s next?

As the year draws to a close, KNKX is taking a look at how our community and region has changed.

In early 2025, Amazon employees were required to return to the company’s South Lake Union headquarters five days a week. Over the summer, Waterfront Park officially opened at the edge of downtown Seattle.

Jon Scholes, who leads the Downtown Seattle Association, recently joined KNKX’s All Things Considered to discuss the impact these happenings and others had on the neighborhood’s resurrection following the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.

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On the state of downtown Seattle

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