New Art Gallery and the "Ghosts of Belltown"

In Belltown, a neighborhood in downtown Seattle, for quite some years you could see an abandoned store that used to be called "Bergman Luggage". The store was located in a historic two story building erected all the way back in 1920 originally as a Ford dealership, that eventually became a luggage store, until it fell in hard times and the store closed. The building was abandoned until an artist collective decided to buy it in order to create a new artistic space in the city. Just recently the building reopened with its very first art exposition. It was a very neat idea: the artists got together and did a massive cleanup in the building, and then put all the debris that were inside the building in the first floor and added art installations on top of them. The exposition was appropriately named "Ghosts of Belltown" and I visited it yesterday: the works were very creative and made an interesting use of all the old materials that had been abandoned. After this first exposition, the first floor will become a permanent art gallery and the second floor will be divided in studios for the artists in residence, making a much better use of the building. You can see the pictures of the exposition below (the artists were there and they were actually telling people to take as many pictures as you wanted) and as a bonus I added two pictures of the roof of the parking lot building nearby where I had parked my car. This was a great way to end a year of many (and wonderful) adventures, and I wish a Happy 2024 for everybody!