Monday Compendium

Editor's notes:
Urbnlivn is having a meetup June 27th: Details at Urbnlivn
Be sure to read the NY Times article on Bellevue (under Market)

Development
Seattle developer to remake Columbia City's main plaza [PI, June 18]
12 acres in Denny Triangle on market [PI, June 15]
Clise Properties puts Denny Triangle land up for sale [Times, June 15]
Clise family behind many of city's landmarks [PI, June 15]
One big chunk of downtown Seattle up for sale [Times, June 16]
Related: Paper Noose thoughts on Clise sale [PN, June 16]
Live-work condos present own problems [PI, June 15]
Megahomes multiplying, but how big is too big? [Times, June 15]
Old news dept: Ballard Denny's to be demo'ed for condos [BNT, June 18]

Neighborhood
Maple Leaf: A Maple Leaf lot in need of a developer [Slog, June 15]
Capitol Hill: Who is leasing old Rainbow Grocery space? [CHS, June 18]

Municipal/Zoning/Politics
City tree protection not making the cut [PI, June 17]
Related (sort of): Wallingford vigilante plant clipper [Slog, June 18]
Related (sort of): A West Seattle case of legal chopping [WSB, June 17]

Transportation
Transportation Census numbers [Slog, June 18]
Related: Seattle Transit Blog digs deeper into numbers [STB, June 13]

Market
The Cranes Are Back, So Are Tenants (Bellevue vs. Seattle) [NYT, June 17]
Thoughts on Zillow's Seattle heat map [SCR, June 18]
The Pittsburgh conversion [SCR, June 14]

Thursday Compendium

Development
Colman Center: office space for creative types [PI, June 14]
Hotel not residential disappoints Seattle officials [Times, June 14]
Sims hopes to buy time for rails-for-trails (?!) [PI, June 13]
Related: Sims wants to speed up land-swap deal (?!) [Times, June 14]
Megahomes multiplying, but how big is too big? [Times, June 14]
Visions for a new Seattle Center being made public [PI, June 12]
Related: Seattle Center: daily destination? [Times, June 13]
Hist. comm. approves new lighting for Steinbrueck Park [PI, June 13]
In Other Neighborhoods. . . [Stranger, June 13]
Historic Central Area hall looks as if it's on its last legs [PI, June 12]
More Ava condo information [SCR, June 11]

Neighborhoods
WS: Seattle Housing Authority acquires WS apts [WSB, June 13]
GT: Duwamish cleanup gets a bit messy [PN, June 13]
GT: Stop work order: demo of Old Firehouse Market(!) [PN, June 13]

Municipal/Zoning/Politics
City Council: Primary Primer [Stranger, June 13]
City Council: Follow up with Venus Velazquez [Slog, June 14]
City Council: Joe Szwaja profile [Slog, June 14]
More City Council links on Slog [Slog, June 13]
(I didn't see any Times or PI coverage this week. Did you?)

Transportation
Beyond Sound Transit 2 [OR, June 13]
Related: ST2 includes study of Burien light-rail [Hi.Times, June 12]

Market
New housing market: Urban car camping [Slog, June 14]
Sabey sells P-I building to California company [PI, June 14]
WA 1st quarter mort. delinquencies down QoQ, up YoY [PI, June 14]
Seattle foreclosures up QoQ, up YoY [PI, June 13]
Homes cited as too costly for too many [PI, June 11]
Related: Seattle Bubble's article review [SB, June 12]

Monday List

This doesn't deserve the "compendium" label- Sorry, I just needed to get this out the door...

Development
Seattle looks at widening apartment, condo tax break [PI, June 11]
Affordable rentals vanish as apartments go condo [Times, June 10]

Transportation
Crosscut special report: Tolling the Puget Sound [Crosscut, June 11]
Kemper Freeman really hates transit [Slog, June 11]
Related: Transit opponents overview [STB, June 9]
3rd Ave to stay bus lane until viaduct replacement built [STB, June 10]

Neighborhood
Wallingford: Park NIMBYs oppose school project [Times, June 11]
Windermere: Denny mansion loses piece of its history to [PI, June 11]

Market
Local home sales cool off; why are prices still hot? [Times, June 10]
Belltown Market Analysis [SCR, June 8]

Thursday Compendium

Development
Future affordable housing funding requiring green standards [PI, June 7]
Qwest Field North Lot development moves forward [Times, June 5]
Stone Way QFC project stalled; currently a big pit [Times, June 5]
Related: Pending groceries in West Seattle [WSB, June 5]

Neighborhood
Georgetown: Neighbors talking trash with city [PI, June 7]
CD: A story (about change & race) [Stranger, June 6]
Related: CD story correction [Slog, June 7]
Mossback finds his n'hood: N. Dakota (Leave already!) [Crosscut, June 4]
WS: Current and potential condo conversions [WSB, June 3]

Municipal/Zoning/Politics
Wanted: Seattle City Council candidates, not weenies [Times, June 7]
Related: Idiot, you kicked out the cool kids! [Slog, June 7]
Related: Limited interest in City Council races [PI, June 4]
Meanwhile, Seattle Port Commissioner race gets crowded [Slog, June 7]
City Council campaign funds & strip club zoning [Stranger, June 6]
New initiative from Dick's owner: More talk? [Times, June 5]
State doubles funding to protect public lands [PI, June 4]
Related: Where that funding is going on the Eastside [Times, June 7]
1m in Sno Co. by 2040 (King Co. projections too) [Herald, June 4]
Middle class moving out/what's middle class? [PI, June 4]

Transportation
(I can't cover the light rail/RTID debate; there's too much.)
Kemper Freeman against Bellevue light rail? (Why?) [Times, June 7]
UW, Sound Transit agree on extension for $1.6 billion [PI, June 7]
The other tunnel debate: Bellevue's preferred light rail [Crosscut, June 5]
Related: Some Bellevue LR planning alternatives [Orphan Road, June 6]

Market
Links to/reviews of all the monthly market articles [SeaBub, June 7]
Best Sunday real estate ads [UrbnLvn, June 7]

Sunday Compendium

Wow. I can tell summer has arrived:

Development
The next wave of condos [SCR, June 2]

Transportation
RTID Moves Forward [Slog, May 31]

Municipal/Zoning/Politics
King County: take our urban lands, please [SeaTrans, June 1]
Sally Clark's nightlife proposal [Slog, June 1]
Related: Earlier post [Slog, May 31]

Neighborhood
CD Quality of Life: Under Attack! (Uh, Deano's closed.) [MP, May 31]

If you need something more, check out the Vintage Seattle blog. It launched May 3rd and it has enough content now to keep you occupied for some time. (I try to task your attention only when it's best.)

Thursday Compendium

Sorry for the delay. There's a lot:

Development
$32m Nitze-Stagen deal saves historic downtown church [PI, May 31]
Related: How the deal went down [Times, May 31]
Related: Seattle Times previous version [Times, May 30]
Bellevue: "Thinking big for the future of Bel-Red" [Times, May 31]
Check out area development over time on Trulia [CHS, May 31]
Fallout from ST Capitol Hill plans & other development [PI, May 30]
Related: Capitol Hill light rail station detail [SeaTrans, May 30]
Related: ST Capitol Hill light rail station page [ST]
"Schnitzer Northwest expanding, changing name" [PI, May 30]
"Seattle's 'Ladybug Guy' hits his blue period" [Times, May 30]
Washington Hall: likely to be sold, demolished [Crosscut, May 29]
Related: Paper Noose upset. [Paper Noose, May 30]
Downtown hotel switch incredulousness in writing [Seattlest, May 29]
Condos are spreading out [PI, May 28]
Related: Even in West Seattle [WS Blog, May 29]

Neighborhood
First Hill: M Street Grocery: Ok for neighbors [MetBlog, May 31]
Intl Dist: CASA Latina has some friends [PI, May 31] Fremont:
"It's back! The wait for 'the Interurban' is over" [PI, May 31]
Cap Hill: New park!; Comment & meet w/Park Dept [MillerPark, May 31]
Cap Hill: CHS blog wants you to move in [CHS, May 31]
Ballard: Bitches and moans (like everyone else) [Times, May 30]
WS: Trader Joe's Rumor [WS Blog, May 31]
WS: Competing offers to buy, Renter vs. Developer! [WS Blog, May 31]
WS: Land use updates [WS Blog, May 30]

Transportation
Sound Transit's shore-hugging rails [Times, May 30]
ST small-biz mitigation: example of success(!) [SeaTrans, May 30]

Market
"Case-Shiller: Seattle Not Really Special" [SeaBub, May 29]

Construction
Carpenters agree to work [PI, May 30]


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Monday Compendium

Development
"Colman School fire was an accident" [PI, May 27]
"Condos springing up near Pike Place Market" [PI, May 25]
"Deal to build homes near Qwest Field moves ahead" [PI, May 25]
UW B-school's new building $15m short. [$ PSBJ, May 25]
"Sound Transit directors OK expansion of light rail system" [PI, May 24]
Downtown developers change minds, build hotel [PI, May 24]

Neighborhood
Mid Beacon Hill Issues [BeaconHill, May 25]

Municipal/Zoning
Hempfest gets a SAM park easement from City [Slog, May 28]

Transportation
Light rail in the bus tunnel! (photo) [SeaTrans, May 24]


There were plenty of opinion pieces but none were worth your time.
Feedback and tips appreciated.

Everything you wanted to know about the Condo Expo

Can be found at Urbnlivn, here.

I just didn't have time to get to it myself. On a positive note, check back here tomorrow for DPD bulletin highlights and some wild speculation.

And remember, tips to seattleplans@gmail.com.

Thursday Compendium

Development
"Ladybug guy's paradise about to be paved" [PI, May 24]
"Developers plan to build a hotel instead of housing" [PI, May 23]
Downtown church spared in land deal [PI, May 21]
-Related: In Other News: Church [Stranger, May 23]
"South Lake Union streetcar making tracks" [Times, May 21]

Neighborhood
Wallingford Park will close for school expansion, n'hood upset [PI, May 23]
Schizophrenic man caught in city cleanup plans [Stranger, May 23]

Municipal/Zoning/Politics
"Some interesting newcomers could shake up the Seattle City Council" [Crosscut, May 24]
City panel OKs plan for siting strip clubs -- with restrictions [PI, May 24]
In Other News: Clubs [Stranger, May 23]
In Other Neighborhoods: Magnolia & SE Seattle [Stranger, May 23]
"The master negotiator between business and environmentalists" [Crosscut, May 23]
"Growth and density: Let's do the numbers" [Crosscut, May 21]

Market
Condo Expo: "Where's the Party?" [Stranger, May 23]
Rhodes & Gardner: Q&A on residential real estate [Times, May 22]
"First-time buyers find ray of hope in condos" [Times, May 21]

Transportation
"Pacific Northwest ports encouraged to work together" [PI, May 23]
Will Seattle vote for the RTID? [Stranger, May 23]
"Viaduct solution elusive as work looms" [PI, May 23]
"4 lanes open again on Fremont Bridge" [PI, May 23]
"Getting There: New ramp torn down over state's bad design" PI, May 20]

Sunday Compendium

Development
"Children's Hospital to double number of beds, facility size" [Times, May 20]
"Google leases Fremont offices" (not Bellevue's Tower 333) [PI, May 19]
The Sonics: In Sabey's Associated Grocer space? [Crosscut, May 18]
Related: Georgetown's questions. [PaperNoose, May 18]
Related: Sonics not going to Associated Grocer space. [Times, May 20]
Zoo garage: It's never too late to reconsider. [Times, May 18]
Related: PI version here. [PI, May 18]
Getting ready for yesterday's condo expo. [PI, May 18]
Related: Be sure to check out this video of Seattle's 2010 cityscape.

Neighborhoods
"Save Georgetown! No Dump!" [MBH, May 20]
"Neighborhoods Vs. Schools and Skateparks" [Slog, May 17]

Municipal
"How is a crosswalk born in Seattle?" [CHS, May 18]

Transportation
Seattle Transit meets with Sound Transit. [SeaTrans, May 18]

Market
Seattle Time's Home Values Special Report [Times, May 20]
The latest condo sales numbers. [UrbnLivn, May 20]
A synopsis of the Condo Expo. [Sea Condo Review, May 20]

I'll try to have a roundup of more tidbits from the Condo Expo tomorrow.

Thursday Compendium

Development
Details of Children's City Block Transaction [Times, May 17]
Queen Anne Couple Fights for Demo Mitigation [Times, May 17]
--PI version here. [PI, May 17]
McIver wants to wait on Dearborn Rezone [Stranger, May 16]
"Boom in Condos keeps Builders Going" [PI, May 16]

Neighborhood
Praise for Signage(!) on Capitol Hill [Capitol Hill Blog, May 16]
Real estate & employees, and "Teardowns to Townhomes" [WS, May 16]
Planning for the next Madison-Miller Plan [Miller Park, May 14]

Market
Single Women Not Interested in Downtown Prices [Times, May 17]
Urbnlivn updates on condo price changes [Urbnlivn, May 16]
"WCRER: Affordability Still at Record Lows" [SeaBub, May 16]
Foreclosures Up MoM, Down YoY [PI, May 15]
NY firm buys 5th & Madison condo, says no changes. [PI, May 15]

News Compendium

It seems there's little to report since Sunday, so expect a Sunday/Thursday feature.

Also, linking to DJC stories seems redundant, so I think I'll just occasionally highlight or link to an article as it pertains to a posting.

Email tips here: seattleplans@gmail.com

Sunday Compendium

Development:
First Hill's white-brick-arch building is coming down. [Slog, May 12]
Capitol Hill condo conversions. [PI, May 11]
2-3 month additional delay at Noma (Proj Mngr fired!) [UrbnLivn, May 11]
East Denny Triangle block transaction. [PSBJ, May 11]
Cascade/South Lake Union block transaction. [Times, May 10]
-PSBJ version here. [PSBJ May 10]

Neighborhood:
N'hood dynamics of New Holly's diverse population. [Times, May 13]
Difficulty selling landmark "Painted Lady of Beach Drive." [WS Blog, May 12]
Fluff piece on Eastlake. [Times, May 12]
West Seattle land use notice and a demolition. [WS Blog, May 11]

Construction:
Cause of the crane collapse in Bellevue. (Flawed design.) [Times, May 12]

Municipal/Zoning:
$13 million tax windfall from the Blackstone transactions. [Times, May 13]
Strip club zoning politics and misinformation. [Slog, May 11]

Transportation Infrastructure:
Beacon Hill light-rail tunnel cost overruns! ($1 million.) [PI, May 11]
Seattle Transit blog has something to say. Sort of. [SeaTrans, May 11]

Market:
Market update. [Seattle Condo Review, May 12]