An Urbanist Guide to Things To Do in Bellevue’s BelRed
BelRed combines a nascent South Lake Union, SoDo, and the International District. Spring District Station has a South Lake Union feel with tech offices emerging from a large light industrial presence. Both have some hidden gems.
Late-Night Glimpses
Milan Kundera wrote that our memories are more like glimpses or brief 'scenes' than stories with beginnings or ends. They’re closer to photographs than...
Midweek Video: How Highway Noise Barriers Don’t Solve All
https://youtu.be/e0naL8eJmLA
Highways are the bane of cities creating all kinds of awful pollution, including noise pollution. To mitigate noise, sound barrier walls have been installed...
Local Pride
"Well, you win the award for Mr. Conviviality," an elderly woman said to me as she deboarded on the tail end of the 10....
Midtown Commons Breaks Ground at 23rd and Union This Summer
Lake Union Partners' mega-project will bring the most sweeping change yet to an intersection with a complicated past.
In 2009, a group of artists, journalists,...
Op-Ed: Seattle Poised to Repeat Chicago’s School Closure Mistake
Last week Seattle Public Schools (SPS) unveiled plans to embrace sweeping austerity, making major cuts to school programs and closing an unspecified number of...
Pretty Sure I Don’t Deserve This
"Congratulations," a friend once told me, after I'd finally gotten a New York literary agent. "Let yourself feel it today, and breathe. You deserve...
Acronyms for Action: SLI (Statement of Legislative Intent)
I first heard the word "SLI" when I was approached to provide feedback about the neighborhood council system. As a renter, I had long...