Interbay Armory Legislation Approaches Approval
A bill to set up a public ownership authority at the Interbay Armory site is in the last stages of the legislative process. On...
Sunday Video: Who Really Designs Cities?
https://youtu.be/gsh_d3ypnBU
Using Cities: Skylines as a comparative, Dave Amos looks at the nuts and bolts of who really plans and manages cities in America. It’s...
Seattle Has the Space
Seattle is in a housing crisis, not a land crisis. We have plenty of land in this city. So much land we have the...
Draft Plan Inches Toward Modest Upzones around 130th and 148th Street Link Stations
Urbanists have been hoping that arrival of light rail to North Seattle would transform single-family sprawl oriented around I-5 and a 160-acre publicly-owned golf...
Shoreline Apartment Boom Picks Up Along RapidRide E, Still in Infancy Near Light Rail
Outside its light rail station areas, Shoreline has seen a noticeable bump in apartment planning, permitting, and construction in the past few years. Upwards...
Unions Head South but Negotiate Plan to Preserve the Labor Temple Building
Among the victims of 2020 is the Seattle Labor Temple, which the association of unions that manages the building put up for sale last...
The Historic Preservation We Need: Four Floors and Corner Stores
We cannot escape the echoes of history. I live in and own a house in a formerly redlined section of Wallingford. This house was...
Midweek Video: Will Electric Cars Kill the Gas Station?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVIYNzY-pE
Davos Amos looks at what the proliferation of electric cars means for fueling stations in the years ahead. Will they die away? Will they...