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.
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.
Sounds good to me.
Sorry to break the news, Fnarf. The tire place will be toast.
Keep Glazer's Film/Lighting and rental shop. Their main store is bloody useless...
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?
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.
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!"
That parking lot is classic Century 21 architecture. It's irreplaceable!
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.
Once all the initial retail chains fail, the space oughta cheapen up and allow quirkier shops to come in.
"and of course a Subway so the obese can at least pretend" (10)
LOLOL
if anyone can fuck it up, its LMN.
"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.
I work at Lk Union and it would be nice to have some *affordable* food choices.
@14 - actually, the coffee shop next door just decided to try adding donuts.
It's a trend.
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
#17 is sheer poetry.
Charcoal tundra. Thank you for coining that. I'm gonna say that about three hundred times before I die.
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