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WTF!!! People bitch that they are building nothing except high priced condos and townhouses. NOW we are bitching about APARTMENTS??!!!!!

Screw CAPITAL HILL!!!!! A bunch of you are on the rag!!!

I just go up there to go the clubs anyway....

Posted by Andrew | March 5, 2007 2:56 PM
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These apartments, and the many condos that accompany them, will drive out the clubs before long. Clubs and residential neighborhoods don't go together. Clubs belong in commercial-industrial districts that are semi-abandoned at night.

Posted by Fnarf | March 5, 2007 3:02 PM
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These condos took out Thumpers - with it's '70s style fireplaces and Dina Martina brunches - it was easily one of the best gay bars on the Hill....

Posted by KELLY O | March 5, 2007 3:18 PM
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Capitol Hill will not be frozen in time to the exact moment you think was coolest. It's going to change. Quit your fucking bitching already.

Posted by Gitai | March 5, 2007 3:25 PM
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I'm taking those signs as being the same sort of culture jamming as putting bronze "No Spitting" signs up in Nordstroms. Reads to me as a "condo owner backlash" hoax.

Nobody's mad about apartments going up.

Posted by Funny Stuff | March 5, 2007 3:36 PM
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Will any of those apartments go for less than $1,000 for a one bedroom apartment? For a lot of us, they might as well be condos.

Posted by elswinger | March 5, 2007 3:38 PM
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What elswinger said!

I moved off the hill in January and came to the realization that Capitol Hill is a lot like Vegas. It's fun to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

Posted by monkey | March 5, 2007 3:48 PM
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I'm almost certain this is a marketing play/joke saying that the neighborhood is going... up. Getting better. Too expensive of materials for it to be the work of pranksters, anyway.

Posted by Amy | March 5, 2007 3:51 PM
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@ 6. Yeah, they are priced out at $1000+ giving those leasing at 950 or 850...and so on down, less ability to raise rents in the future. this is how you protect yourself from more increases in the future - build rental units (preferably on vacant/underutilized lots).

Posted by flotown | March 5, 2007 3:53 PM
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added to say that I know this becaue 1) its not a subsidized building and 2) construction costsbeing what they are require rents of at least $1.80/sf for a developer to make dime one, or even to get a loan, even on an efficient site. That means 550 sf priced at $1000+ and up.

Posted by flotown | March 5, 2007 3:58 PM
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It's my understanding that no building can be old and funky and cheap without going through a period of "newness". They tend to be relatively more expensive during this time. Right?

Posted by Patrick McGrath | March 5, 2007 5:00 PM
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These signs are appearing all over the Hill - just saw one on a dumpster at 25th E & E Union yesterday, so I'm guessing it's somebody's not-so-subtle dig at the ongoing gentrification in the area.

Posted by COMTE | March 5, 2007 5:08 PM
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Perhaps Capitol Hill should abandon ship now and go kick those fucks out of South Park.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | March 5, 2007 5:19 PM
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I agree with #8. The sticker-person is a little late to the game, too ... where was sticker-person when the mixed-use monstrosity went up across the street from this site? And across the street from that?

Posted by GEN. STOCKDALE | March 5, 2007 5:30 PM
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I live on capitol and I'm glad to see all the new condos and apartments going up. They are only going to make the place better. More people means more businesses and that means more choices.

Capitol Hill is a desirable neighborhood because it’s close to downtown and more and more people are going to want to live here. Capping or artificially restricting the amount of housing will only make rents go up that much fasters. Gitai had it right the place is going to change. More units means more competition for renters/buyers than fewer units.

Build on!

Posted by C of Capitol Hill | March 5, 2007 9:16 PM
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#15 Spoken like someone who can spend $100K+ on housing.

Posted by elswinger | March 6, 2007 8:42 AM
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Some people can afford 100K+, others can't. But if someone can afford it, I'm not going to be a hater. Can't afford to live someplace? Move somewhere else. What, you've never heard of Darwin?

Posted by Jason Josephes | March 6, 2007 9:52 AM
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Good change is good...

Bad change is bad...

Taking out healthy, vibrant businesses and buildings is bad...

Replacing vacant lots and abandoned buildings with new buildings can and should be good...

Too much change, too quickly and badly planned and thought out is also very bad...

Have I made it simple enough for everyone to understand?

Good...

Posted by michael strangeways | March 6, 2007 11:50 AM
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Let's just kick everyone out of Seattle who can't afford to pay $1000 or more a month for rent. When those folks can't afford to, or don't want to, commute the hour or more to Seattle to go to work, you can type your own fucking letters and serve your own fucking food.

Posted by elswinger | March 6, 2007 4:42 PM

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