Eminent domain is *that* unpopular (for good reason).

It’s 40 minutes from Downtown Seattle to SeaTac as is… you might be looking at an 80 minute trip to JBLM on Link…

That’s just terrible.

The potential locations for another Seattle airport for the average located Seattleite are miserably distant (Seattleite in the MSA sense).

St. Louis has a zoo/museum district that adds like ~$120/yr in property taxes for the average homeowner and allows the zoo and major museums (history museum/art museum/science center) to provide free admission to all guests (including out of towners).

Seattle should consider a zoo/museum district for free entry.

Alleys make a huge difference. It’s a shame our grid wasn’t platted out with alleys as the norm. Inexcusable for a city our age.

St. Louis City is similar to Baltimore City, but with 1/3 of Seattle’s population. People from Seattle gotta get a little bit of perspective.

I had assumed that signs would be put up for loading zones. Maybe once businesses move in?

Yeah, I think the garages for this project are on State and Holgate. No real reason to have any cars on 22nd or Grand. Throw up bollards with fire department access if the concern is fire safety.

Actually, the plaza would also be much better if it didn't have a one lane road running through the middle of it.

The plaza itself is actually pretty nice. It has good seating, the buildings around it are nice, it has retail bays ready to be leased, there are a series of pro-immigrant art installations, and there's a public fountain. But it abuts one of the most dangerous roads in Seattle.

Yeah, they are. The STL Compton and Dry maps are pretty remarkably detailed across the board though in ways that none of our maps are. Pretty cool to have that resource as a city.

This is Seattle’s best Pictorial Map from 1891. The city’s population was just 43,000 people. The hills hadn’t yet been regraded, nor the flats infilled, nor the canal dug.

There will be a park at 18th and Walker someday, but until then, you could probably do this at S Grand & 18th or between College and Bayview on 18th. Both are longer blocks that could better accommodate that space being given to the youth.

That would be really nice, because currently I have to walk up Beacon Hill to catch the 60 to get to Mass. it’d be easier (and maybe quicker?) to catch a theoretical 40 on Rainier.

No kidding. Theres potential there, but zero political will. The connection of Rainier to Boren is also a mid 20th century product.

Notable that St. Louis did the majority of this growth after 1840 with westward domestic migration + German & Irish immigration. And building the housing to match demand.