OTHELLO SQUARE

The Othello neighborhood in South Seattle is a vibrant multi-cultural community with a uniquely rich immigrant and refugee history. While the opening of the Othello light rail station in 2009 brought easier connectivity to Othello, it also opened the door for new development and a different demographic of neighbors. Othello Square is the community’s collective move for embracing change while maintaining diversity and opportunity in their unique neighborhood. Starting as a grass roots movement, Othello residents and community groups joined together to take charge of the future of their neighborhood by imagining empty parcels at the intersection of MLK Jr Way and Othello Street as a community “opportunity center”. Othello Square is a mixture of neighborhood housing, educational facilities and community services representing a wide range of stakeholders, cultures, and demographics. Between the buildings lies a shared central courtyard aimed to be a collective resource for Othello Square users and the larger Othello neighborhood.

OTHELLO NEIGHBORHOOD

The Othello Neighborhood is located in South Seattle between Rainier Beach and Columbia City. The neighborhood is along the major arterial road, Martin Luther King Jr. Way S, east of the Duwamish River. In 2009 the Othello Light Rail Station bringing new development to the neighborhood. This has changed the demographic of the neighborhood.

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Housing

Offering a blend of market rate, affordable, and ownership housing

Education

Impact Public School: 252 families enrolled for next year.

Community Wellness

Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic (OBCC) has a second location in the Othello neighborhood.

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Residents are nonwhite
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Immigrants
40
Ethnic groups in Southeast Seattle
60
Different languages spoken
%30
Population under age 18

Who is at Othello Square

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What people say

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If this community doesn’t own something, we’re going to get pushed out. We have to own real estate. We have to own our own assets. We have to own our own programming. And this is not something that is easy to do. This is, frankly, not something necessarily Seattle is used to, which is marginalized people controlling their own destiny.