Housing Notes: Africatown Plaza Breaks Ground, Built-to-Rent Single-Family Home Boom, and Living Office Building

This installment of housing notes contains mix of high and low notes, but we'll kick things off with story that hits the upper octaves....

Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Nearside

"How's it going?" I nod to a man clad in brown and black. "I'm great," he says, even though he has a cell phone to...

Snohomish County Permits Childcare Providers More Places, State May Follow Suit

Snohomish County Council adopted new land use legislation to streamline permitting and remove regulatory barriers to opening more childcare centers and daycares. The state legislature seems to share in that goal and has proposed statewide legislation reducing regulatory hurdles.
Tim Burgess is a bald white man with glasses dressed in a dark suit and yellow tie.

Appeal Denied: Compassion Seattle’s Charter Amendment is Dead

CA 29 is over, but the debate over how to end homelessness is not A three-judge panel from the Washington State Court of Appeals has...

Sunday Video: How To Quickly Build A Cycling City

Not Just Bikes visits Paris to see how the city has rolled out a good bike infrastructure and witnesses how it has transformed culture....
A photo of King County ballot drop box on a sunny day.

Crisis Care Levies and School Bonds the Subjects of April Special Election

April 25 Ballot to Decide Operations and Construction Measures around Puget Sound. Ballots have reached voters for the upcoming April special election, with the off-season,...

Trees + Density = Livability

Last October, Seattle Weekly republished an article headlined, ‘Will Seattle Finally Protect its tree canopy’, which was followed a few days later by Seattle Mag’s...
Sound Transit's streetcar in Downtown Tacoma. Work on Tacoma's Hilltop streetcar extension continues, but further extensions are shelved until Sound Transit grapples with Covid-related budget impacts. (Doug Trumm)

Transit Agencies Ask Feds for $36 Billion to Weather Covid Recession and Keep Projects...

Sound Transit hopes doubling federal funding for Lynnwood Link and Federal Way Link could right their storm-tossed financial ship. Joining 25 other transit agencies from...