A conversation with Seattle
Also on the Transformation Plan list: two neighborhood medical clinics providing free healthcare services, three new pocket parks, 4,000-square-feet of affordable retail space, and restoration of Washington Hall, so it can function as a neighborhood performing arts center (instead of a decaying arts center). Continue reading Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Gets Almost $20 Million More From HUD
Even with thousands of new apartments on the way, concludes Everett Rummage, “with the city’s economy recovering, and unemployment continuing to fall, there’s no reason to expect the rent to remain anything but Too Damn High.”
That’s the opposite sloganeering spin of Seattle Bubble, where the headline is “The Rent Won’t Be Too Damn High For Long.” Continue reading Are Seattle’s Rent Prices Heading Up or Down?
“I don’t think we should accept the idea that people are doomed to be homeless and live in tents,” Conlin had told Publicola in November 2010. In October 2011, the Council passed legislation making it easier for religious groups to host tent cities for longer periods of time. Continue reading Op-Ed: City Council Has Nickelsville’s Rat-Infested Floodwater on Its Hands
The majority voiced support for Mayor Mike McGinn’s proposal to rezone parts of South Lake Union to allow for towers up to 400 feet tall or about 40 stories. At that height, buildings could obstruct some views of Puget Sound, the Space Needle, and Lake Union from Capitol Hill. Continue reading City Council Gets an Earful of Support for SLU Rezone to 400′
Earlier this year, The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman, himself creator of an epic Tesla v. Edison comic, heard about the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, the rather aspirational (at the time) name of a 15-year-old non-profit that hoped to reclaim Wardenclyffe, where Tesla tried for 17 years to build a massive wireless communications tower. Continue reading Internet Makes Progress Building U.S. Tesla Museum
Since our great nation’s presidential candidates will be squaring off over all sorts of issues, including housing, the infographic gnomes at Estately thought they’d compare the housing of the two men who hope to make the White House a second or sixth home for the next four years. “Comparing Obama’s Chicago home with the five homes Romney has owned within the past few years we discovered that both men have no shortage of spare rooms and upscale amenities,” says Estately. See for yourself. Continue reading Infographic: Does Size Matter? How the Presidential Candidates’ Cribs Stack Up
This morning, a half-acre of former SHA property (official sale price: $2.88 million) at 12th Avenue and East Yesler Way is on the way to private hands–private Canadian hands, in fact, since the new owners are Gracorp Capital Advisors Ltd. of Calgary, Canada. They’re partnering locally with Spectrum Development Solutions, who have been very busy around Seattle providing housing for college students. Continue reading Sold! $2.9 Million Sale Launches First Private Development at Yesler Terrace