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Call me crazy or just ignore me but I say we zone it as a "Gay Club Zone" I mean we lost Capital Hill to Condos and breeders so let's take it over for nothing but a strip of gay bars, and dance clubs.

It is a better idea than building a bunch of over priced condos no one will be able to afford when the housing markets hits bottom.

Posted by Just Me | November 27, 2007 12:28 PM
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Just so long as they don't fuck with the used tires place on Aurora. That ought to be a landmark -- The Last Unpretentious Business In Seattle, perhaps?

Oh, and Glazer's cameras. Leave that one too.

Posted by Fnarf | November 27, 2007 12:36 PM
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Sounds good to me.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 27, 2007 12:36 PM
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Sorry to break the news, Fnarf. The tire place will be toast.

Posted by Dominic Holden | November 27, 2007 12:39 PM
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Keep Glazer's Film/Lighting and rental shop. Their main store is bloody useless...

Posted by Chris B | November 27, 2007 12:41 PM
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I just hope a couple more lunch joints open up on Dexter. Not hating on the Dexter Deli--but could we please have more options?

Posted by Westside forever | November 27, 2007 12:42 PM
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Tell me the Hostess plant is moving. The smell of hot lard out of that place is kind of much on your bike at 6:30 a.m.

Posted by left coast | November 27, 2007 12:43 PM
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I'm wondering how many people looked at that ugly white building on the corner of Denny and Dexter and said "what the hell is this dump? Pave it!" and then got a gasp and a response like "but.. THAT'S KEXP! THAT'S LIKE KILLING CHILDREN!"

Posted by matthew fisher wilder | November 27, 2007 12:48 PM
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That parking lot is classic Century 21 architecture. It's irreplaceable!

Posted by NapoleonXIV | November 27, 2007 12:49 PM
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Of course there's retail potential there, at least one Starbucks but it's a long block so maybe two, and of course a Subway so the obese can at least pretend, and since it's off Aurora one or two nail salons and maybe a dollar store.

Posted by kinaidos | November 27, 2007 1:10 PM
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Once all the initial retail chains fail, the space oughta cheapen up and allow quirkier shops to come in.

Posted by Greg | November 27, 2007 1:46 PM
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"and of course a Subway so the obese can at least pretend" (10)

LOLOL

Posted by Lake | November 27, 2007 1:47 PM
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if anyone can fuck it up, its LMN.

Posted by max solomon | November 27, 2007 1:51 PM
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"And, even if entrepreneurs start a bunch of adorable cupcake shops, traffic will always roar by at speeds that make a casual stroll inconceivable."

You're making the mistake of assuming the present lasts forever. 12th Avenue in Capitol Hill around Madison was a high-speed thru-way until quite recently; amazing what new lot-line development and commercial activity can do to calm traffic.

Posted by Eric F | November 27, 2007 2:30 PM
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I work at Lk Union and it would be nice to have some *affordable* food choices.

Posted by Polka lips now | November 27, 2007 3:46 PM
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@14 - actually, the coffee shop next door just decided to try adding donuts.

It's a trend.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 27, 2007 4:07 PM
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Wait, Watch and Listen. Dexter will resemble Western Ave. It will be an empty, narrow canyon whose walls will reveberate to the bark of free flowing exhaust pipes of mildly tuned V8's being double clutched early in the morning.

--- Jensen


Posted by Jensen Interceptor | November 27, 2007 6:53 PM
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#17 is sheer poetry.

Posted by Orv | November 27, 2007 8:07 PM
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Charcoal tundra. Thank you for coining that. I'm gonna say that about three hundred times before I die.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | November 27, 2007 10:03 PM

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