Freeway Park Revamp Is Ahead, Latest Concepts Unveiled
Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Freeway Park Association began their open house and survey this week for the planned Freeway Park improvements. This...
Soft Opening for a Hard Won Trail
It’s been forty years since the first segments of the Burke-Gilman Trail opened, replacing parts of Seattle’s railway infrastructure with bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares....
Convention Center Seeks $300 Million Federal Bailout to Complete $1.8 Billion Expansion
The Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) announced today that it was seeking $300 million bailout from the federal government to stay afloat. The WSCC's...
The Potential and Pitfalls of Prefabricated Buildings
The City issued permits on January 17th for another new tower in Belltown, but this one was a little different. The developer, Sustainable Living...
Master Builders Continue to Push for Missing Middle Zoning in 2020 Agenda
On Thursday morning in a ballroom at the Meydenbaur Convention Center in Downtown Bellevue, the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties (MBAKS)...
A New Skyline for a New Seattle
“Beyond a certain critical mass each structure becomes a monument, or at least raises that expectation through its size alone, even if the sum...
Off Limits: How Seattle’s Suburbs Are Blocking Housing
Suburbs surrounding Seattle, some of them literally islands, are pulling up the drawbridges to growth. That is putting even more pressure on Seattle to...
Urban Village Boundary Contractions? No Thanks.
In my Sightline piece from May, I described how homeowners in Wallingford have worked for decades to block housing via downzones, increasing development burdens, and...