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In his fourth GeekWire article on downtown recovery, Chuck Wolfe reviews the use of AI imagery in a section of the Seattle Downtown Activation Plan and suggests how it may have missed the mark.

With mounting crime, homelessness, and drug and graffiti issues, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced a plan he hopes will turn things around.

survivors. don benson is one of those who made it through the storm in tennessee. his house did not. >> definitely i thank the lord for sparing as many people as he had. and i know these things can all be replaced. but like everyone else here, its going to take a while. its going to take a lot of construction to help out. >> its important to note that this destruction storm system is not over yet. hitting parts of the deep south right now. more on that in a moment. all right. meantim...

starting with the mall. theres a big walmart over there. here is a strip mall. this was a cell phone store if you walk in here, you can see there they are, cell phones, all the inventory still here. it is well guarded with police help. i have to tell you, instead of looking at the daniel and destruction like this heres what people are looking forward to, to the clean-up as you can see the workers over there cleaning this town up. theyre putting on new roofs, theyre securing what they h...