Lynnwood City Center’s Growth Aspirations Hinge on Two Slow-Moving Megaprojects

Builders have nearly 3,000 homes in the works near Lynnwood's freshly opened light rail station. But more than half hang on two massive projects that are in limbo.

Sunday Video: Las Vegas Loop — Gamechanger or Complete Waste of Time?

Boosters of the Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop tout high capacity of individual Teslas operating through the single lane tunnels. Is this really the...
Viet Wah with apartments developing in the back

Kuo/郭: Watching Chinatown’s Gentrifying/Generational Change

Some of my earliest memories of taking public transit were the times when my maternal grandparents would occasionally walk me and my brother to...

Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 2: Resource Use, Conservation, and Healthy...

Editor's Note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle's urban village strategy. For background on the report, see...
Downtown Bellevue's skyline

Rapid Buildup Fuels Downtown Bellevue Skyline

Since 2018, a deluge of construction projects in Downtown Bellevue has been completed and begun to form Bellevue's adolescent skyline. This spree has been...
Aerial of the Central Puget Sound with its many highways and single family homes

PSRC Report Connects Single Family Zoning and Highways with Structural Racism

On July 6, the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) launched their Legacy of Structural Racism Interactive Report. While this report is far from the...

Over 90% of Seattle’s New Buildings Are Mixed-Use or Multi-Family

The City of Seattle released new construction data on January 15th and it shows a remarkable amount of new building. There were 8,311 housing...
People bike on the low bridge with the cracked high bridge looming overhead. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

SDOT Lays Out Six Options for West Seattle Bridge, Cost-Benefit Analysis Process in October

In a recent blog post, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has outlined the framework it will use to evaluate options to replace or...