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Potential Expedia Traffic Highlights Seattle Center Arena Issues

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The Seattle Times picks up on the potential traffic impacts that Expedia's announced move from Bellevue to the Seattle waterfront in 2018 could have on the city. The area most greatly affected will be the already-congested Mercer/Denny corridor from I-5, through South Lake Union, and into Lower Queen Anne.

This shines a light on existing infrastructure issues that affect the possibilities of using either the KeyArena site at the Center or the adjacent Memorial Stadium site as viable alternatives to the proposed SoDo arena location. Both offer the land for such a project, which is why they were included as alternatives in the environmental review. Also, as the city owns KeyArena, it is often pushed as a venue and a site that should be given top priority, even though growth in the city continues to erode its viability and appeal.

In fact, pulling things out of the steadily-growing SLU and Queen Anne areas and into the south of Downtown looks not only appealing but prophetic.

With action on the city, county, and state levels moving toward improving infrastructure and freight mobility in SoDo, these are strong evidence toward proving the case that Chris Hansen's proposed site is the best location within the city for a new arena.

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