![]() ![]() “How many people are in a jail cell when they need to be in a treatment bed? How many people are at risk on the street when they just need a place to recover? How many people, how many families - in every community - are quietly suffering with nowhere to turn for help? Providing crisis care, and treatment beds, and compassionate, professional help is the right and decent thing to do,” Constantine said. The executive also asked for support from voters in April when a $1.25 billion behavioral health levy to create a new “regional network” of emergency mental health care centers will appear on the special election ballot. “This historic area can remain a center of local government, but it can also be so much more: a neighborhood with residents of all incomes, with shops and restaurants and gathering spaces, a place that enlivens and supports the surrounding neighborhoods,” Constantine said. ![]() Constantine said Sound Transit is considering the old administrative building as the site of a new light rail station. ![]() Under the Civic Campus plan, Constantine says King County should redevelop the property with new county buildings to replace the permanently shuttered administration building and the 37-year-old jail that critics say is decaying and dangerous. “And if we seize it, we can show this state, and this nation, what it means for government to be a catalyst for progress and, in that progress, to leave no one behind.”Ĭonstantine has led the county since 2009. “We have the opportunity, right now, to create a place – a global metropolitan region – worthy of our children, and of theirs,” Constantine said. ![]() The plan would include building a new light rail station below the campus on the site of the current King County Administration Building.Ĭonstantine’s proposal came Tuesday as the official delivered his 2023 State of the County address. King County Executive Dow Constantine is proposing the creation of a new “Civic Campus” that would redevelop county property including closing the outdated county jail to “reimagine the courthouse neighborhood” between Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle. ![]()
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