Little Saigon Business District
Project Goals
We worked with Little Saigon business owners, cultural and service organizations, and other community members to work on the following goals:
- Create a prosperous business district
- Enliven everyone's experience of Little Saigon
- Make Little Saigon an attractive and safe neighborhood
- Improve customer and visitor parking
- Find grants and other funding for improvement projects
The End Result
- Increased community capacity to accomplish improvement projects for the neighborhood
- A strong vision for the future of Little Saigon
- Recommendations and strategies that may be implemented by the community in the near-term and long-term
- Grant applications and funding proposals to implement projects emerging from planning process
- An ongoing, broad-based advisory group to initiate and guide implementation of strategies and projects
Project Documents
- Little Saigon Visitors and Residents Survey Draft Report (June 2014)
- Little Saigon Flyer (August 2014)
- Little Saigon Sustainable Neighborhood Assessment (May 2016)
Event and Meeting Materials
Little Saigon Business District Plan
We partnered with Friends of Little Saigon and the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority (SCIDpda) to develop an action plan to make Little Saigon a greater place. Our project builds on the work accomplished so far through the Little Saigon 2020 Action Plan (2012). We engaged the Little Saigon community in developing strategies and in building a coalition of neighborhood interests to improve Little Saigon over the long term. We teamed up with SCIDpda to work with business owners, cultural and service organizations, and historically underrepresented communities to create a prosperous future for Little Saigon.
In the spring quarter of 2014 graduate students in the University of Washington’s Landscape Architecture 503 studio, taught by Professor Jeff Hou, met with the Little Saigon community. The students worked with the community to perform a thorough site analysis. They then developed design proposals for Urban Design, Residual Spaces, the Jackson Corridor, and Urban Forestry. Check out their Placemaking Little Saigon report; it's a summary of all of their design proposals.
In the winter quarter of 2009 graduate students in the University of Washington's Landscape Architecture 503 studio, taught by Professor Jeff Hou, worked with the Little Saigon and Chinatown communities on a community design project for South King Street. The students findings and design recommendations may be seen in the King Street Visioning Project Report.