Oh, but when Seattle does this people call HR...

I think the little courtyard driveways are preferable to that max lot coverage plan we saw in Portland recently. At least the driveways can someday be converted to people spaces.

Sounds like it had its moment and use case and we need to move to funded IZ asap.

From year 1 to year 2 of owning my townhome, my coverage limits increased by 8%, and they increased my premium by 5%. That felt a lot more just than this 40% jump. And they’re just hoping homeowners will be too busy to catch them squeezing extra money away.

Similarly, my homeowners insurance premium jumped 40% from last year. They only increased my coverage limits by 4%! Make that make sense?

Definitely going to be calling in on both of these before work tomorrow.

Tbh, red eyes are always my preference for international flights.

A perfect snapshot of Nextdoor and Mount Baker all at once.

And then to maybe compare that to a city that was a peer in the aughts but didn’t boom like we did?

Xfinity just tripled my internet rate at the end of the introductory term so it’s time to shop, I guess… internet is a public utility and should be owned & operated as such.

Plus the French American School of Puget Sound, a 4-story building on a small campus at Walker and 23rd.

Kamiak - Real Estate Investment Firm Kamiak is an entrepreneurial real estate investment firm that acquires, develops, and operates niche multifamily and commercial assets in Seattle.

If interested in the Fir and the Treble from builder Kamiak, they have those projects and more on their website.

Per their website, construction was supposed to begin on both mid 2025. Obviously missed that target, so maybe we can anticipate groundbreaking middle of this year?

kamiak.com/projects

Plus ~60 units and ~3.5k sq ft of retail to start soon at 2007 S State St.

So around 700 units likely to start within the next year or so here.

We’ve got the mayor and the CM to do it…

We desperately need some modernized laws around public privacy rights.

The formerly named Jazz House at 2100 S Walker would also add another 128 units in that immediate area. As I understand, the developer is still moving forward on that.

Between that, the Fir (1906 20th Ave S), and Treble (1910 21st Ave S), those three projects would add another ~600 units in a 3 block chunk west of Rainier near the Judkins Park Station.

Also looks like the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle is working through the permitting process for a 7-Story, 188 Unit Affordable Apartment Building at 2009 Rainier Ave S.

This site formerly held a 7-11 (with gas pumps), Baskin Robbins, and Burger King.

The Fir scheduled its grading permit earlier this week to remove contaminated soils on a Brownfield site.

Not sure how long FASPS has had these signs up at their future Beacon Hill campus, wondering when they might kick off construction.

$499k for one of these 2 bedroom, 850 sq ft townhomes just finished in North Beacon Hill

The "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" crowd is philosophically opposed to these solutions. In an imagined reality, they prevent them from enjoying the spoils of wealth inequality. Or from racing down a 25 lane wide interstate. Or from securing exclusive housing others are denied.

We have technical answers to all of this that only require the political will of the people and their representatives. Like traffic can be mitigated with congestion pricing and investment in public transit, displacement with funded inclusionary zoning, and wealth inequality with progressive taxation

Over and over, people attempt to rationalize their participation in the negative externalities of society as always being just beyond their culpability threshold. Of course, this is not how the negative externalities of wealth inequality, displacement by gentrification, or traffic congestion work.

It's similar logic for gentrifiers who complain about gentrification: "Gentrification started the year after I moved to the neighborhood."

It's the same for drivers who complain about traffic: "I always get stuck in traffic!"

His wife is about to become a fast food franchisee and he's seeing the dollar signs (which are well short of $1M per year) and naturally, "rich" is beyond what he can envision himself someday bringing in.

This type of messaging is really successful with the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" crowd. Was talking with an old friend the other day who said the millionaire's tax will come for us all and that $1 Million a year really isn't that much money (he makes a median Seattle wage).

If we can successfully do this, it completely changes how people look at future rail proposals, too.

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Yeah buddy

There are so many great European brands that won’t ship here.

I don’t think this is a pose but a progressive revolt against Benedict, led by a wing of the Church that had been marginalized. Francis opened the door and now Leo is putting wind in these clerics’ sails