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The Best North Seattle Neighborhoods Near Light Rail
Though the light rail stations are not set to open until 2021 in the North End, real estate agents have already started featuring this mass-transportation option in their advertisements
COMING ATTRACTIONS: Northgate Mall owners are planning to tear down 60 percent of the shopping center, replacing much of it with residential buildings, office towers and a training facility for the city’s new National Hockey League team
The Best Bellevue and Redmond Neighborhoods Near Light Rail
Soon Seattle will be connected to its Eastside neighbors thanks to light rail stations opening in 2023
A new transit-oriented development, Esterra Park, is being built along 152nd Avenue NE, within walking distance of the Overlake light rail station
Unanimous Vote Moves City’s Density Plan Forward
The Seattle city council passed the Mandatory Housing Affordability plan out of committee on February 25
After almost five years, dozens of hearings, hundreds of public comments, multiple legal challenges, and enough environmental and legal analysis to fill a small apartment, the Seattle City Council is finally poised to pass the citywide Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) plan, which has been in the works, as part of the city’s Housing Affordability and…
A Bold New Waterfront Is Coming to Seattle Soon
After more than 65 years of being cut off from downtown Seattle, a new waterfront is set to unfurl, dramatically changing the city’s landscape
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue and is part of our Seattle Waterfront feature. See PDF version of waterfront map here. Click here to subscribe. Seattle’s new downtown waterfront—a combination of projects so monumental in their collective scope that it’s hard to think of them as a single program—is finally coming into view. Squint just…
Seattle Waterfront Gets Artistic
Arts and culture are a significant focus of the vision for Seattle’s new waterfront, including permanent art installations by local and internationally renowned artists
This article is part of our Seattle Waterfront feature. Shaun Peterson, a member of the Puyallup Tribe and a contemporary Coast Salish artist, is developing three bronze and red cedar figures that will overlook Puget Sound, reflecting the historic connection between the Coast Salish tribes and the Seattle waterfront. Many of Winnipeg-based Cedric Bomford’s previous…
How Seattle’s Waterfront Plan Took Shape
See Seattle waterfront's milestones
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue and is part of our Seattle Waterfront feature. Click here to subscribe. 2001February: Nisqually Earthquake occurs and damages the State Route 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct 2009January: City, county and state governments agree to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel December: City forms Central Waterfront Partnerships Committee 2010September:…
This Week Then: Celebrating Black History Month in Washington
Plus: How King County got its name
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Firsts of the Month February is Black History Month, and this week HistoryLink notes some of Washington’s many African American “firsts.” We begin with George W. Bush and his family, who in 1845 were among the first Americans to settle north of the Columbia River,…
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