(July 11 photo by Dave Gershgorn for WSB)
The peninsula’s biggest party of the year – West Seattle Summer Fest – is over for another year, after three big days (and two nights) in the streets in the heart of The Junction. Organizers at the West Seattle Junction Association want to know what you thought about it – what you did, what could be improved, etc. To collect those opinions, they’ve just launched this short survey. It’s open until August 1.
Left feedback! I’d love to see California Ave closed more often to cars so we can have Summer Fest-type events more often. It was so fun to see people and businesses spilling out into the streets in a much more significant way than the short 10a-2p Sunday market closure allows for. Just having a Saturday dinner beer and pizza outside at Supreme was great, and I’m imagining as a customer how much nicer it’d be to be outside in the Junction throughout the summer would be so appealing. Seems disappointing that The Junction has such little outside dining and business space compared to other neighborhoods like Ballard or Capitol Hill, yet we have so much space allocated to people and their cars.
Where’s the $$ going to come from? Do you think it’s free to do something like this? It’s not disappointing at all -& we don’t have to close the streets down to have outdoor dining.Raccolto, Ittos, Seattle Fish, Elliott Bay, Husky Deli-Beer Junction.Coastline, Shadowland, Easy Street all offer outdoor dining. Why don’t you ask Supreme to put some tables & chairs out? Why do we have to be like Ballard or Capitol Hill?
Anne, all it would take is some jersey barriers to make the area on California Ave SW between Oregon and Alaska streets quieter, more inviting, less polluted and more thriving with diners and shoppers than it currently is most of the time. In fact, I challenge those who live and have businesses in that area to apply for a block party on Neighborhood Night Out August 5th. I’d come to that block party!
I can’t agree with you more Mike B. I would love for the Junction to be car free and even more walkable. It would be great to have some chairs, tables, plants, maybe even a water fountain or fixture in the junction and for it to be completely closed off to cars. Then we could have so many more social events too. A girl can dream!
Left feedback! The food was ridiculously expensive, I know the Junction Assoc has no say over the prices, but jeepers. $14 for an elephant ear?
Loved how they had the food court with plenty of seating. Keep that aspect for sure!
Nothing embodies the spirit of street fair quite like getting gouged by food vendors. But I’m not the type of person who goes home and writes a Yelp review, I asked a vendor why the prices were exorbitantly high, and I got an awkward embarrassed half-smile. I’ll stick with the Alki Art Fair, by far my favorite event.
The Junction’s been doing that, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale, for the past few years. Closed street, Night Market, outdoor stage, same night as the Christmas tree lighting.
I thought the food was very reasonably priced for what we got. I was disappointed in the water stations. That was a mess.
Ya, the free drinking water station water tasted like it had been sitting in those plastic containers for way too long. We filled our water bottles but then dumped out our free water due to icky taste.
Had a great time this year. Was more than happy to spend my money locally. I haven’t been in a few years, so I’m not sure if there was any more or less to offer. Always bums me out to see dogs out on the hot pavement, I often wish it was service animals only.
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