Over the years, SEED has engaged in a wide variety of efforts to promote economic development in Southeast Seattle. Significant projects have included urging large businesses like Darigold and Lowe’s to hire and retain local employees at their locations in the Rainier Valley, developing the Safeway plaza, and bringing a Kaiser Permanente clinic to the area.
Following major environmental remediation for the land at Rainier Court, over the past several years SEED has developed four affordable housing buildings that are also home to small businesses at street level. Read more about Rainier Court in this article by the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.
Currently SEED is focusing much of its economic development efforts on supporting a thriving and racially equitable creative economy for the South End. Through offering low-barrier fiscal sponsorship for emerging arts groups, building community coalitions to support creative development, and acquiring and maintaining arts facilities, we are creating the conditions to help artists and creative entrepreneurs thrive in place.