The launch of the 2011 Spring Fund Drive happens to mark a year since Real Change arrived to our new location at First and Main in Pioneer Square. None of the terrible things that some predicted have come to pass. The blight of visible poverty is no more or less pronounced than before. The homeless have not descended upon Seattle's historic district to form a human gauntlet of Real Change vendors, stretching annoyingly from the pergola to Safeco Field. No one died. All in all, the Square is pretty much as it was before.
For us, however, the changes have been huge.