Standing outside the PCC Community Markets grocery store in downtown Seattle Thursday, politics again flared up.
PCC Community Markets announced on Nov. 1, 2023, that it's closing its downtown location in Rainier Square.
But the City Council started a fight against Amazon with a head tax on big business. That measure was approved and then repealed. Amazon would announce a change in plans at the tower and that it would sublease the space. PCC specifically cited sluggish sales, and foot traffic is not close to pre-pandemic levels. In a data analysis this summer, Bellevue-based INRIX looked at 20 major American cities and vehicular trips. Seattle downtown trips were down 27% since before 2020, among the worst percentages in the country. Transit ridership was down 35% but was still in the top half of recovery among those cities.
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