Also worth noting that he mentioned several times that activists are the enemy. None of this is surprising. But it’s probably not an over exaggeration to say that he’s probably the most influential fascist in Seattle politics.
Also worth noting that he mentioned several times that activists are the enemy. None of this is surprising. But it’s probably not an over exaggeration to say that he’s probably the most influential fascist in Seattle politics.
We’re going to arrive at a point here in Seattle where Chief Barnes tells the rank and file SPOG members to show restraint and Dolan is going to be in their ear pushing them toward the idea that it’s finally their time to show force alongside the feds. Who will they follow?
I sped through Solan’s podcast and 1) he’s parroting Trump’s “crime stats manipulation” conspiracy 2) praising how great it is the feds are in DC 3) indeed sounds excited for the show to come to Seattle There should be grave concerns about who and what SPOG members will show loyalty to here soon.
Interior pictures: redf.in/8xozHs
At 14th and Atlantic, someone is remodeling this 4 story former SFH - now apartments. Down to the studs right now. 7 units. Love seeing old housing preserved where it makes sense.
Pragmatic Victorian apartments still standing on Beacon Hill more than 100 years later.
A massive house on 14th Ave S in Beacon Hill. This one’s a stunner in person.
1 marked crosswalk, lights are only for one street so cars are playing frogger. not even trying.
Grand Street Commons seems to be filling quickly (with heavy incentives)
Yeah, the new Jabooda project at 2007 S State St stalled after construction fences went up and they excavated earlier this year.
I don’t really know the history of that lot. But hope not, we have enough vacant lots around the station.
2531 16th Ave S has construction fences up (they weren’t there a couple weeks ago). Permits from 2021 show plans for a 7 story 84 unit apartment building with ground floor retail on Beacon Ave. www.seattleinprogress.com/project/3033...
Hillsides and different housing types are such a great combination because you get some pretty cool layering going on.
Single Stair apartment building on the east slope of Beacon Hill under construction. Guessing 6+ units on what was formerly a vacant lot. The east slope doesn’t have too many apartment buildings - mostly single family with a growing number of townhomes.
Here’s a cool house on 13th Ave S Interior Pictures: redf.in/pA9SCB
The oldest house in my neighborhood. Can you tell me what architectural style it was originally built in and what style it was modified to later?
Yeah, just an observation about its relative insignificance in the growing city.
It looks really small now that it lives among the high rises. Maybe I just remember it being a lot bigger than it was as a kid.
Demolishing housing and adding useless green space to big cities during the era of white flight was a universal American experience.
Mount Baker has been doing Mount Baker things for a while
Megan Asaka’s “Seattle At the Margins” has some great chapters about how the city viewed people who lived south of Yesler throughout the city’s history. It wasn’t with equal consideration!
Another, maybe more impactful, angle from 1933. Can’t really forgive planners for jamming two interstates and a tangled web of ramps into this area.
What are the reasons why Seattle decided starting with non-spines to West Seattle/Ballard and the cost/challenge of crossing two bodies of water was better than running light rail through neighborhoods like First Hill, the CD, and Belltown first?
Or the cops getting into a high speed chase on Beacon Ave and then crashing into each other before damaging the new bus stop at Beacon & Hanford
In my mind, Central Seattle has always been the Cut to I-90. Anything north is North Seattle. Anything south is South Seattle. West Seattle is just West Seattle, and we don’t talk about Magnolia.
Yeah. What that hillside could be coming down into CID and Pioneer Square is pretty cool, and sad, to think about.
Sometimes I think about a Beacon Hill that isn’t cut off from Pioneer Square and the Stadiums by the interstate and its ramps.
Do you know where the name for State St comes from on North Beacon Hill?
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That’s a fascinating alternate reality for North Beacon Hill!
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It has been interesting to get almost zero national attention from the fascists about it yet, though.
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I’d like better options than grocery stores that are known to sell moldy produce or be so severely understaffed that people give up mid-checkout line. I guess that’s just the charm of the free market for the poorer side of town, though.
Theres 3 Safeways and 1 QFC for the whole of rainier valley. And a Red Apple up on Beacon Hill. Because the few options are so poor, me and most of my neighbors have to go to other areas for our groceries despite our desire to stay in the neighborhood. The free market is failing southside residents
You been around the southside? Our grocery options are sparse and poor. My neighbors and I deserve better, and the government should intervene if the holy free market won’t provide it.
Wilson says if elected she would explore the possibility of publicly owned grocery stores, work to ban algorithmic grocery pricing and introduce grocery-oriented development incentives (like transit oriented dev but would have incentives for building grocery stores)
Seeing the crowds these days makes me sad
Bitch worry about your own yard. We don't want the NG here either and we also hate the government
I went to mass today at St. James Cathedral on First Hill. In a bulletin where the church surveyed parishioners on perceived strengths and weaknesses of the church, lack of parking was noted as a weakness. On First Hill. Heart of the city. St. James even comps parking in the garage next door.
Seattle U didn’t open for another 16 years after this map, so maybe this was an early planned site before they ended up at their current location.
I know St Louis University had a farm a ways away from their campus that provided students and faculty with food in the 19th century. Maybe something similar? Doubt there were any academic buildings there.
Curious if anyone knows more about the Catholic college grounds here in North Beacon Hill bounded by Walker\College/14th/19th. Map circa 1875.
Looking at an old Seattle map circa 1875 and there was a Central Park platted that would have occupied 82 acres in present day Judkins Park/Atlantic.
I don’t think you know what a shakedown is.
Fun fact: we actually RAISED Rainier at the same time we lowered Dearborn Street via regrade to create a flatter route to downtown.
There are few things quite like the Chicago Riverwalk
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Easier to say these days now that IAFF leadership is doing fascist propaganda.
Idk that a $3.00 ticket is holding people back from taking one-off trips to the airport via Link. Wonder if we implemented a $10-20 toll (or some sort of congestion pricing model) for driving to the front doors of the airport if it would drive a mode shift.
Idk, my experience with city parks is that turf fields get pretty good use. But I don’t see why they have to take something popular away given the footprint of Woodland Park.
If they’re playing any football games there, they’d need 120 yards of field length (endzones, too). If it’s just for practice, they don’t *need* more than 60 yards or half a field.
We'll see if this causes as much agita among the elite classes as the proposal for a few state-run grocery stores in poor parts of NYC.
St. Louis’ series of parks stretching west from the Archgrounds are like that, too.
Love to promenade by having to wait for the crosswalk every 300 feet.
Haha I wish they gave me one so I could promote it to others. Looks sweet.
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The best time to build a thousand of these was 1925. The second best time is now.
Easily one of the coolest buildings in the city. Imagine if Mount Baker had built a ton of these around the neighborhood back in the day.
I get why my sister (a mother of 4) with a masters in teaching held off beginning her teaching career now.
I can’t tell you how much less likely I’d be to have a kid as I stare down these numbers if both my and my wife’s parents didn’t live within 15 minutes of us.
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Sometimes I shed a tear about just how affordable St. Louis is relative to Seattle. I bought a 115 year old brick home next to a light rail station and a 1300 acre park with a free zoo-museum district for less than $140/sq ft.
As a public school teacher, in order to afford a Seattle “starter home” I had to begin my career in St. Louis, buy a home there, use the proceeds from my home sale, and still get a gift from my parents to fully knock off PMI for affordable monthly payments.
A unique townhouse I saw today on 18th Ave S
There are multiple reasons why I like grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s, but a big one is that they’re properly staffed. Can’t remember the last time I walked into a Safeway, QFC, Target, or Fred Meyer that was adequately staffed. It solves so much.
Good: “I am unequivocally opposed to using public funds to illegally fund privately operated schools that are not accountable to voters and are not required to accept, educate, and uplift all students.” -WA Superintendent of Public Instruction @chrisreykdal.bsky.social
I’ll let you read for yourself. It sucks. Here’s where the discussion starts: www.skyscrapercity.com/posts/194222...
Reading that the vocal posters on the Skyscrapers City: Seattle forum really do not like Katie Wilson. Surprising that such an urbanism focused group would sneer at the candidate focused on quantifiably improving urban life for Seattle residents. Oh well, Katie Wilson by double digits!
We have the weapons.
The most common accommodation I see in the classroom is extended time, so I don’t think it matters a whole lot that you’d accommodate a small group of students for typed, oral, etc.
It’s Ms. Now to you
With IEPs/504s, you can give them accommodations. Not a big deal.
Months after a tornado ripped through, too. That’s surprising!
One that sells aperol spritz would go a long way in summer
I repeat it again. It's time to bring the "baracchina dei gelati" to America.
As a rhetorical tactic, the writer hides behind being very specific about the fiscal spending of the official BLM organization, but she knows that the average reader will read this as a short hand for broader civil rights organizations and activists. She means to implicate those who are helping.
I’d hazard a guess that Lynn Schmidt doesn’t spend much time in North St. Louis seeing the community efforts of people who actually care about healing a hurt community. So how would she know who is doing what? She’s not in any way a part of the community she is objectifying in her political effort.
This is an embarrassing print for the Post Dispatch. Neighbors and community organizations have been helping each other with challenging work for months in North St. Louis but you platformed the conservative white woman from St. Charles trying to score political points? Have some shame!
No surprise the person who wrote this is a conservative from St. Charles.
I wonder how many non public transit users in Seattle think the 7 shouldn’t exist because we have light rail through the Rainier Valley.
This is no different than the kid on the playground crying that you can’t cherry bomb in 4 square after explicitly suggesting that cherry bombs are game at the start of recess. Sore losers.
Here’s why that’s the fault of ideological leftists…
I think people like leaders who are openly human, can accept opportunities for growth, show the ability to reflect and change.
For working class eats, no doubt.
Then why are you still endorsing Bruce Harrell for mayor?
And Rainier is particularly important as a biking corridor because it cuts diagonally through the street grid. Any alternative bike lane either has to zig zag or you end up 10 blocks from Rainier at some point.
Ope, tossed in an errant url I guess.
Yep. There is really no future for “car first” street design in the Rainier Valley. The geography doesn’t allow for it. Long past time to adapt.
I think Fed Grants only make up about 10% of the yearly operating budget, but it seems like that’s separate from the construction budget.
The feds contributed ~40% of the cost of the Lynnwood extension.
I feel this is an optimistic forecast of the capacity of the federal government post-Trump (if we get there).
Infill stations are a pretty different challenge than building a whole new line. There are legitimate concerns about this being able to be completed at this point.
Federal support poof
