Reporting on the convention center from the public record: who runs it, where the money goes, what the buildings do on the days there is no convention, and what they could be. The Findings and Exhibits pages hold the register.
The convention center's buildings and books, read the way a COO or CFO would: findings that walk the audited statements line by line, from the good news to the bad. Each figure cites the page it was read off.
The case for a public commons in the building: 435,000 square feet at the center of downtown Seattle, and what makes public space generate civic life, informed by data from 32 cities.
See the Commons →The reference layer: CommonScore, which measures participation infrastructure across 32 cities, and the sourced facts everything else is built from.
Open the Almanac →Walking trails, each one a QR code away — and the trail builder that makes them: a form in, one self-contained page out, nothing stored, nothing to install.
Small civic tools that run in your browser on public data a government already publishes.
The documents, the findings, the open items, and how the pages are made. Corrections live at the foot of the piece they correct.
I'm Ivan Schneider. I worked at the convention center in 2023, and after I left I built digital trail maps for visitors to the Summit. I wrote the proposal the Commons makes the case for. I live in the neighborhood.