Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
Tacoma Untapped broke the news that Horizon Partners NW has proposed a 14-story tower in Tacoma's Brewery District that incorporates cross-laminated timber (CLT). If built, it would be Washington state's first tower to use CLT, and be even taller Portland's 12-story Pearl District CLT tower, which just got final...
Earlier this month Amazon announced a deal to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. The news precipitated a $32 jump in Amazon's stock price--which equaled a $15.6 billion increase in market capitalization--leading some commentators to declare Amazon had purchased Whole Foods for free.
The deal hinted at why...
The Urbanist was part of a coalition of organizations that hosted a candidate forum Thursday evening focused on transportation and land use. The six leading mayoral candidates participated as did six of the most prominent contenders to replace retiring Councilmember Tim Burgess, in at-large District 8. The mayoral video...
The Urbanist is a proud cosponsor of a candidate forum tonight called Growing Seattle. The forum's theme is transportation and housing policy and will include the major contenders in two races: Seattle Mayor and City Council Position 8, an open at-large seat. Both of these races are wide open...
After more than a decade of delays, a plan to build more than 200 affordable housing units on a 28-acre site at Fort Lawton Army Reserve Center in Magnolia may finally be picking up momentum. The Seattle Office of Housing hosted a meeting Monday to gather input, and there's...
Weeks before Mayor Murray was supposed to announce the winner of the redesign contest for KeyArena--hereafter called Seattle Center Coliseum*--AEG withdrew its proposal, breaking the suspense that Oak View Group would be the winner.
AEG argued the process was not fair and its competitor was not being forthright in its finances. We...
On the former site of Bill The Butcher in Wallingford, Alchemy Investments is planning a mixed-use project with a large storefront and approximately 43 apartments across a spectrum of sizes from small efficiencies to one bedrooms. What they aren't proposing is parking. No parking for cars is required because...
The Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the zoning changes its proposing in urban villages as well as commercial and multi-family residential areas outside of them across Seattle and which would implement the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program. Moving...