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Committee reviews plan to install interactive media kiosks downtown and in business districts
Summary
The Seattle City Council’s Governance, Accountability and Economic Development Committee on May 8 heard a briefing on a proposal from the Downtown Seattle Association and vendor Ike Smart City to install, maintain and operate interactive media kiosks across downtown and in participating Business Improvement Areas.
The Seattle City Council’s Governance, Accountability and Economic Development Committee on May 8 heard a briefing on a proposal from the Downtown Seattle Association and vendor Ike Smart City to install, maintain and operate interactive media kiosks across downtown and in participating Business Improvement Areas (BIAs).
The kiosks are proposed as a programmatic term permit under Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 15.65 and would be delivered at no direct cost to the city. John Scholes, president of the Downtown Seattle Association, said the proposal would “help people find their way to transit, to arts and cultural events, to community events, to farmers markets,” and framed kiosks as a proven tool in more than 20 U.S. cities.
Why it matters: Committee members and staff framed the project as part of the mayor’s Downtown Activation Plan and as an opportunity to provide multilingual wayfinding, free Wi‑Fi, public-safety alerts, and revenue that the DSA would reinvest in services in the Metropolitan Improvement District (MID).…
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