we attend the forty fourth annual two thousand and thirteen university district's street fair changed things up a little bit because the construction going on coming along here you never know  and you know on a cool day there's a lot of people here there's also a kid so an area and how the group is not like that but our school is a performance based music program which means that the way we teach kids to play is by getting them together not only with a private instructor but also in a group and learning songs by a bunch of different modern rock bands and eighteen so the youngest kid up there playing guitar is around eight or nine well our youngest in this group this is our house band which is the only addition based program that we have at our local school so these are kind of the best of the best that you're given a chance to look at right now  walk around and come in as well as if you do side street it's a pretty big fa they actually change what's going on and beside seeing some of the same vendors are almost every year you also see new and different ones of new and different entertainment or if it's of interest to you you can have a caricature of yourself it's too bad that there's no smell of  because on this particular side street with the variety of around the forty fifth street area special walking around a little slow if you're coming to this event it's very leisurely for everything anything you can imagine even fries in seattle guaranteed to come ask me any time of the week especially saturday night after six so now how long you've been stuck down here today i've been here since nine o'clock and so some of the food places are one of the ones i'm going to try to caveman because i've been given a food scoop and this is what i'm going to be trying hot and steamy and then i had some ice cream which is actually really good we'll see where we go as we take a look around at the street fair and i'm going to try one other thing and so i'll be trying that for first time as well information booth for the street fair we have some of the chamber folks including the new face of the chamber and for those that don't know who you are please identify yourself hi my name is aaron or good and how long have you been the chamber president no one not the chamber president i'm the benson membership manager but i'm running the office this year it's been just about december fifteenth of last year and the former chamber leader in your position for director was her title and second of director yeah yeah and she retired in december she's expecting a grandbaby actually pretty much any time way where do you see the direction and what things you see changing and this is a really exciting new year i'm not sure how familiar you are with the you d l c the university district mediumship partnership but the city's office of economic development has given us some grant money to do fatigue planning for the neighborhood with a new sound transit station coming in and there's a lot of interest in this area and so there is a process to look at what the leadership for this neighborhood should be and the chambers very much involved in that and we anticipate a lot of changes in the next twelve months because a little bit a little while before this footage actually cares but because as people know i shoot a lot of footage of different events but so around this time next year or a little sooner what kind of changes do you expect well you know what the beauty of having a  planning process is it allows you to open up yourself to all the possibilities so we haven't even decided what the change is going to look like we're stepping back and saying what should it be so it's really an open ended question at the moment but sometime between october and january i think they'll be ready to publish their decisions and kind of make those types of announcements you know with the construction of everything that's been going on for the transit there's going to be changes in the way the street fairs been set up that is absolutely true and actually we anticipate almost having a different map every year for the next ten years which is a little bit stressful but we have to accommodate this construction and so it means moving some things that have been places to other places shortening the size of our our overall footprint and we'll be we work very closely with sound transit and they let us know what's coming up the pike we know for a fact that forty third and brooklyn will be closed next year you will not be able to drive up front when so we're already and dressing that as we draw them out for next year  a lot of changes going on in the district and some major ones too for a little while that is absolutely correct but it will be great once it's here are sound transit i live near a station and it has really made a difference in transportation and so it's going to be hard to live through but worth it when it gets here next year will be forty ok well i know that you're busy and even your your helper that was going to sit next year for a moment if you got sidetracked so i'll let you get back to your duties and thank you for taking the time to talk to the viewers thank you t j i have a good day one of the vendors that kind of caught my attention  and they have more than just  here's a here's one of the faces behind all of this he's slowly working on it unfortunately had a stroke so he's going to turn it over to his wife  try to keep their eye on things look around a little bit more for boarding up this episode and when it comes to street performers you never know what you're going to  all your travel an adventure to learn more about the forty fifth on forty fifth street fair occurring may seventeen and eighteen two thousand and fourteen from ten am to seven pm saturday and until six pm on sunday along university way at fiftieth and all the way to campus parkway by visiting you district street fair dot org please visit my archive page at seattle 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