The ILWU Local 19 issued a sharply worded statement on Tuesday, criticizing an SDOT and mayoral recommendation to eliminate a SoDo street for a new sports arena.
The statement says the “recommendation really doesn’t mean much more than the mayor punting a dying SoDo arena deal to the new City Council.”
On Monday, Mayor Ed Murray and SDOT sent a 65-page report to the Seattle City Council, which recommends the street vacation of a 680-foot stretch of Occidental Avenue South, so Chris Hansen can build a new sports arena.
However, attorney Peter Goldman, who helped write the statement on behalf of ILWU, said Tuesday the report, which has followed years of meetings and environmental studies, was “absurd” and said he believed the council would sit on it “until the clock runs out on Chris Hansen.”
