austin
I usually have the same issue with the hill others seem to have with pioneer square- I’m accosted by some drunk dude or dudes when I’m there. And that only happens on capitol hill. Last time I was there some big drunk guy called me a vampire (which I am not) and wouldn’t get out of my face, just a few feet from the new bookstore location. Additionally I prefer the sleepy peninsula thing we’ve got going on to busy hip-ish (or whatever you want to call it) areas, broadway is such a hole that if they’re trying to clean it up I’ll check back in a decade, it’s completely out of the way buswise from other parts of town I find myself and I don’t know anyone who lives there. I hope it’s a good move for elliot bay books financially; Additional and less tourist-only foot traffic can only be a good thing. And on a positive note the #125 out of delridge turns into the #11 which runs just a few blocks from the new elliot bay books. No transfers!