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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Transportation A Great Plan for a Light Rail Party (In 2023)

Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM

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Slog commenter Hernandez hasn't forgotten what Bellevue Square owner Kemper Freeman once said when comparing his higher-end mall to Tukwilla's Southcenter Mall:

When you walk through the [Southcenter] mall, the way the customer dresses just to shop there—the light blue and pink hair curlers, the shoes that flop, flop, flop along—it's a completely different customer.

And so Hernandez proposes a celebration in 2023, when the Freeman-opposed light rail line to Bellevue (just approved by that city's council) opens.

Can't wait to take the light rail over to Bellevue Square... I'll be wearing my rattiest flip-flops, and I'll make sure the Mrs. has some curlers in her hair.

If anyone can keep this idea in mind for the next 12 years, it could be a fun ride.

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freeman has made such an ass of himself during the last year or so that i purposefully avoid spending any money in bellevue at all, let alone at any of his properties.

i bet he'd rather have crocs wearing customers than no customers.

Posted by Swearengen on November 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM

Only thing is...Kemper Freeman will probably not be around for the satire. Or maybe he will. Mean, selfish, evil people seem to live a very long life

Posted by Bauhaus I on November 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM

I'll be in NYC. Public Transit (that works!!!) for decades.

Posted by anouk on November 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM

I'll wear blue curlers, because I'm a boy.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM

Well, he did succeed in keeping the one and only CBD station six long blocks away from his Bell Square.

Posted by Citizen R on November 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM

why wait?

why not prove that flip flop wearing, curler donning shoppers can drive to Bellevue, just like they can to Southcenter

Posted by olive oyl on November 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM

Against all odds I found myself at Southcenter last weekend. Having been mistakenly at Bellevue Square just a bit ago I can tell you the crowd was a million billion times better dressed, handsomer, prettier, and livelier than Bellevue Square's toffeenosed wrinklebags and plasticines. And if there was a bit of trailer trash here and there, it only added spice. The mall itself was better laid out and more nicely finished than tired-ass Bellevue Square has been in decades.

Posted by gloomy gus on November 15, 2011 at 12:53 PM

Count me in.

Maybe some El-wire in the curlers?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM

why do we have to wait 12 years. there are buses right now. i'm willing to disgust his "classy" customers with a stained wife beater and VERY short jean shorts.

Posted by good shit on November 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM

SlatternWalk Bellevue! I'm so there.

Posted by Geni on November 15, 2011 at 2:18 PM

@7 Of course it was livelier. Poor people have never been able to control the volumn of their voice.

Posted by JF on November 15, 2011 at 2:39 PM

I think it was late 90's, but Opie and Anthony hired a bus, filled it with homeless people and gave them each $100 to go Christmas shopping at NJ's ritziest mall in Cherry Hill.
Not too much hilarity ensued, but the mall called the cops, the homeless people actually were quite nice and had touching stories, and in the end they didn't care that they were being used as pawns between some rich assholes and some other rich assholes with a radio show since they had a nice afternoon in New Jersey and got $100.

Posted by SPG on November 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM