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Great Article About SLU

By joshuadf
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"Seattle Now & Then: A Footprint of Love" has historic photographs of what is now the Cascade P-Patch, with commentary from Paul Dorpat who lived in a tiny cottage on the site in the 1970s. It goes well with the data-driven "[PDF] Mapping Neighborhood Identity in Seattle’s Cascade District" by UW Grad student David Lipe, part of the Preservation and the Vernacular Environment course at UW.

Oh, and there's also a front page Seattle Times SLU story today. If you look really close at the bottom of their picture of downtown you can make out South Lake Union. You'd think the Times could take a decent picture of the neighborhood they're located in.

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> You'd think the Times could take a decent picture of the neighborhood they're located in.

Uh, you missed the point of the photo. It was SLU juxtapositioned against the looming downtown, to make you see the difference in scale but also show SLU as a developing neighborhood aspiring to taller heights.
Their caption on the photo indicates that the composition was intentional: "The South Lake Union neighborhood is in the foreground; downtown Seattle skyscrapers loom in the background."
Comment by Patrick
6 months ago
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Thanks for the comment Patrick, maybe I did miss the point. I didn't notice the caption before you pointed it out, or maybe it was added after I saw the article. Sounds like the Times was purposefully misleading readers by giving a visual of much taller buildings than would be allowed under any proposal. Actually that fits with the contrived "David and Goliath" storyline of the article which fails to mention the significant LUOA victories (the UDF itself, the EIS revisions, and street activation requirements at UW SLU Phase III).


The Seattle Times also should have disclosed its own properties in SLU, several of which are for sale at http://centurypacificlp.com/projects.htm
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6 months ago
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