Is this the end of the Showbox?
The outcry yesterday was immediate, after new documents showed a developer is planning on bulldozing the concert venue and replacing it with a 44-story, $100 million dollar apartment building.
Bill Radke talks to Kurt Schlosser, writer and editor at Geekwire, and Seattle comedian Jay Middleton about why they see the Showbox as a symbol of Seattle's soul -- and what losing it means for the city. Middleton has created a petition to save the Showbox and declare it a historic landmark.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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