Downtown Seattle Association Zeroes In on Third Avenue Pedestrian Improvements
Third Avenue is easily the most important transit corridor in all of Seattle. The street carries more than 52,000 passengers on weekdays via bus....
Sunday Video: Architecture Should Tell A Great Story
To architect Ole Scheeren, "we should think of architecture and buildings as a space for stories — stories of the people that live there,...
New Bellevue and Woodinville Eastrail Segments Anticipated to Open in 2021
Underway in the Eastside is an effort to unify isolated railway-turned trails into a regionally unrivaled trail. Named Eastrail in 2019, the planned trail...
Help Recharge the Battery Street Tunnel
“Nobody stopped to hear him, though he played so sweet and high. They knew he had never been on their T.V., so they passed...
South Lake Union Community Center Open House Returns with New Design Ideas
Seattle Parks and Recreation has reopened the South Lake Union Community Center open house. This community center comes out of the Mercer Megablock deal,...
Swim Classes Save Lives, But It’s Hard to Snag a Spot in Seattle
Last summer I signed my daughter up for a 15 minute private swim lesson at Little Fish Swim School. After a 45 minute bike...
Op-Ed: How to Fix Seattle’s Plan to Expand Lower Woodland Playfields
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is seeking to add a new football/soccer hybrid field for Lincoln High School in Lower Woodland Park, but has chosen a plan that prioritizes parking over accessibility and events, scrapping a recently rebuilt soccer field and historic trees to cram two fields into a footprint that’s too small. The community has proposed an alternative utilizing a gravel parking lot to site a soccer field.
Seattle Should Extend Its Stay Healthy Blocks Pilot
The future of the pilot, which relies on community sponsorship to open residential streets to pedestrians and cyclists, remains uncertain beyond the end of...