The Pioneer Post is a Pioneer Square based newspaper that exists somewhere between performance art, protest zine and actual newspaper. It started as a vacation art project but quickly gained the potential of becoming a real thing once it was released to the community. With the right layout, and a few sponsors
Due to its commercial nature, Pioneer Square has very few residents that can advocate for the area or demand representation. The people that truly care about the neighborhood aren’t even the handful of owners paying taxes on the dozens of buildings in the area. No, instead it’s the people paying those absentee owners to use the spaces they love for the purposes they were built.
The small business owners and workers of Pioneer Square can’t vote for the representatives of the area, most are commuters aiming to serve other visitors to Seattle. The Pioneer Post aims to serve them, the real voice of Pioneer Square. The people that choose to be in Pioneer Square deserves a news source dedicated to them. The paper, whatever the name ends up being (The Pioneer Market Leader, The Historic District Rag, maybe it changes every issue) will be for and about the people that care for the Square and embody the Pioneer Spirit that built it brick by brick just over a hundred-some years ago.
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