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This Week Then: Looking Back on King County’s First County Executive
Plus: Washingtonians get their first look at an aeroplane
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Home Rule Charter Fifty years ago this week, on March 11, 1969, King County voters elected John Spellman, a Republican, as their first county executive under the new Home Rule Charter that was approved four months earlier. Voters also chose seven new members for the…
From the Viaduct to Link Light Rail, Seattle Continues to Change
This month's Editor's Note from Rachel Hart
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. As our city begins to undergo one of the most epic physical changes that’s likely to occur during most of our lifetimes—the teardown of the Viaduct and the development of a new waterfront downtown—it’s only fitting that our annual best neighborhoods issue focuses on a…
The Best Seattle Area Neighborhoods Near Light Rail
The Link light rail is growing, with extensions planned in Seattle and Eastside neighborhoods. Our handy guide shows you the best places to live close to current and future light rail stations
LINKED IN: A Link light rail train pulls into the station at Columbia City, a neighborhood that has been boosted by its arrival
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…
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