Development

Does Seattle’s tree protection ordinance protect developers more than trees?

Industry, entertainment, and offices but no housing: The contentious future of Seattle's Stadium District

Industrial Lands – got some big new protections in Seattle this week. The new zoning rules add restrictions to some industrial areas, but allow new kinds of development in others. But lingering disagreements over the plan’s compromises aren’t going away. Especially around the sports stadiums in SODO.

Find your way to the waterfront

When’s the last time you went down to the waterfront? Alaskan Way is busy with construction as the whole area goes through a redesign. But the project is getting closer to completion. We went down to check in on the progress with Angela Brady, Director of the City's Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects.

Skagit County program helps preserve dwindling farmland

There’s pride in eating locally grown food. But land to grow that food is disappearing. Preservation efforts, like the Skagit County Farmland Legacy Program, works to protect farmlands.

El Centro de la Raza will preserve beloved Federal Way roller rink

The community nonprofit El Centro de la Raza plans to redevelop the two-acre site of a roller skating rink in Federal Way. But this isn't the story of another community landmark going away.

With light rail as fuel, Seattle's Northgate is ready to grow

This week, a lot of people tried light rail and got off at Northgate to look around. As they exited the station, many of them were greeted with a neighborhood undergoing massive change.

How community pressure helped rebuild Black-owned businesses in Seattle's Central District

When Paul Allen’s development company, Vulcan, bought a strip mall and a grocery store in the Central District years ago –many residents had concerns. The community did not want to become like another neighborhood Vulcan redeveloped: South Lake Union. So the neighborhood pushed back.

The river runs alarmingly low in North Bend

It’s been raining this July, but much of Washington is still in a drought, because of our hot, dry spring and early summer. Just 30 minutes outside Seattle, in the town of North Bend, most development is on hold till an issue of water is resolved.

Seattle plans to tap sales tax for affordable housing

For the State of Washington, the sales tax is a firehose of money. For ages, cities have wanted to poke a straw into that firehose and get just a teensy bit of what's flowing inside. During the last legislative session, cities finally got that wish.