After a delicious brunch at Terra Plata today, my husband and I decided to take a walk downtown. We walked between Lenora and Pine meandering between Minor and Western.

The Christmas tree and star were in place at Westlake Park, ready for lighting later this week. The Starbucks in the plaza has closed but a Southeast Asian food hall has opened in Westlake Center. A Uni Glo store has opened in the old Bon Marche/Macys/Amazon office space building. Pacific Place Mall still has a few stores and restaurants but feels empty.

We joined the groups of people walking down to the Pike Place Market, passing an H Mart on the way. Then we walked along Western to Victor Steinbrueck Park, marveling at the lines of people queued up to buy pastries, perogies or coffee.

We admired the trees that have matured in front of the Federal Courthouse. 

We noted that the Rebar has closed but the Corned Beef store is still on Howell. A Hyatt hotel has replaced the Greyhound Bus Terminal but the Moore Theater is still open.

There are still decorative manhole covers but a 30 story office tower is proposed to replace the one story Bank of America building at 5th and Olive.

Several new towers are going up ...

 ... or have gone up ...

... including this Seattle Children's Research Institute building.

Perhaps the biggest construction change is the Convention Center; I wonder if it will ever be used to capacity once it is finished.

During our three mile jaunt, we only walked a portion of downtown but the streets seemed cleaner than they have been recently. There appeared to be some homeless people at Victor Steinbrueck Park but not many on the other streets we walked. Quite a few stores and restaurants have closed but there was not as much graffiti as there had been. There were a good number of people out on this sunny Sunday but not too much traffic.