Progressively Unsuburban is dedicated to the issues of urbanity, transit, development, growth, and architecture through my transition to college life from the tranquil South Bellevue suburbia to the dense livability of urban Seattle.
Monthly Archive for October, 2009
Columbia City Farmers Market [Read More]
I was recently asked to become a contributor to the Seattle Transit Blog. From here on out, all my transit-related blurbs will be posted there. The focus of this blog will not shift dramatically, but will mostly start to focus on real estate, architecture, community planning & development, urban renewal, and other non-transit issues. [Read More]
Frankly, I wasn’t around actively advocating for Sound Transit’s Central Link when it was being conceived, but one common criticism that I’ve heard rail opponents iterate time and time again is that the Central Link alignment was some sort of a political gimmick. “Why Tukwila of all places? People don’t go to the airport on a daily basis. Why not Bellevue?” [Read More]
The Bellevue Reporter recently released an article regarding Kemper Freeman’s long-famed dislike of Link Light Rail. Freeman claims to have commissioned a team of “experts” to study the perfect archetype of a transportation system, but all they are telling us are numbers that are based on a Seattle as it is in 2009. The truth is that because Kemper Freeman is such a big stakeholder in Downtown Bellevue, he is afraid that light rail will detract the quality of his real estate empire. Under the guise … [Read More]