Event: Adding Art to the Local Landscape
Seattle has many notable icons, from majestic Mount Rainer, the Space Needle, and sports stadiums to Pike Place Market and the Seattle Art Museum Sculpture...
Lynnwood Light Rail Construction Ramps Up, Temporarily Closing Trails
As soon as September 14th, Sound Transit construction in Lynnwood will temporarily close two trails: the Interurban Trail and Scriber Creek Trail. The closure will...
Monday’s Traffic Meltdown Showed Downtown Freeways are Brittle
Monday was quite the ordeal. Around 10am a propane truck got into a collision and rolled over blocking an interchange between I-90 and I-5 near Downtown. Propane being...
Pike Pine Renaissance Further Watered Down in Latest Plans
The planned overhaul of the Pike Pine corridor in downtown Seattle will undoubtedly become one of the most significant changes to Seattle's retail core...
Sunday Video: Seattle’s Long-Forgotten Hill
The Denny Regrade, completed between 1897 and 1930, changed the face of Seattle's downtown forever. This video from Seattle's municipal archives breaks down how it happened and why.
Capitol Hill Station Doesn’t Need Any Parking
Sound Transit's Capitol Hill station marks a crucial turning point for the agency. The fruit of years of advocates pressing the agency to more...
Improving Bellevue’s Grand Connection: Part 3 – Downtown Link Light Rail to I-405 Lid...
This article is the final in a three-part series that takes a close look at Bellevue's Grand Connection, a significant planning effort to make...
The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Google’s Smart City in Toronto
Sidewalk Labs is Google’s (ahem, Alphabet’s) secretive department focused on developing ‘smart cities.’ In 2017, the company was awarded an opportunity to reimagine the...