The Queen Anne Magnolia Neighborhood Service Center at 160 Roy St. will be shuttered in January. That means the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce and the Uptown Alliance, which have been using the service center as their headquarters must relocate. Since it was the mayor who proposed the cuts that is forcing the move, then the mayor's office should help them by finding available city-owned space.
Neither the chamber nor the alliance, both of which are volunteer organizations, has much money to pay for space. Yet both are crucial to the well-being of the community. Chamber director Mary Chapman has been speaking with retailers and Seattle Center director Robert Nellams about available space. Nellams is looking into it. Retailers have shown mild interest, but no takers yet.
Meanwhile, the Uptown Alliance has said it wants to stay in lower Queen Anne in a location good for three meetings a month and with some storage space. But it should consider the ample meeting space available at the Queen Anne Branch of the Seattle Public Library at 400 W. Garfield St., McClure Middle School or the Queen Anne Community Center-both along the 1900 block of First Avenue West. Several community groups in other neighborhoods meet in their libraries.
Either way, the mayor's office owes it to these organizations to help them find new city-owned space.
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