Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine have proposed new development incentives for Seattle's bustling South Lake Union neighborhood.
The program would allow dramatically taller buildings in exchange for extra funds from developers to preserve farmland and forests in rural King County.
It’s a first-of-its-kind in Seattle and perhaps even the country. Over the weekend, the city celebrated the opening of its first-everrooftop community garden.
Its design is garnering interest from around the region, as urban planners look for ways to integrate more open space and urban agriculture into increasingly dense neighborhoods.
There are probably places near where you live or work where it’s pretty noisy. The definition of what’s too loud is highly technical. Now, acoustical engineers have developed a new way of measuring noise that includes how it feels.
Hundreds of people packed into a waterfront auditorium last night (Thurs.) in Seattle. They came to see concepts of what the city might look like, once the Alaskan Way Viaduct comes down.
Soon, the public will have an opportunity to see some initial ideas for what Seattle’s waterfront could look like after the Alaskan Way Viaduct comes down. The city plans to redevelop 26 blocks along Elliott Bay between King Street and Broad Street.
Those quaint streetlights that grace some neighborhood business districts in Seattle may be history. Seattle City Light wants to limit the installation of decorative streetlights in the future. This comes in the wake of the city’s ongoing inspection of light poles, some of which have been emitting dangerous levels of electricity.
When 17-thousand troops returned from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan this past fall, Joint Base Lewis McChord became the 3rd largest employer in the state.
That's according to the City of Lakewood, which has released a plan to accommodate the rapid population growth in the communities around the base.
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