Joshua McNichols
Reporter
About
Joshua has been the "growing pains" reporter since 2015, documenting the region's growth and change. Joshua “took the long way” to radio, working in architecture firms for over a decade before pursuing his passion for public radio in 2007. By "long way," he means he's also been a writer, bicycle courier, commercial fisherman, bed-and-breakfast cook, carpenter, landscaper and stained glass salesman. He’s detailed animal enclosures to prevent jaguars from escaping the Miami Zoo. Once, while managing a construction site in Athens, Greece, he was given a noogie by an Albanian civil war refugee in his employ. “You do not tell those guys how to place stucco,” he said. All of which has no doubt made him the story-teller he is today.
Podcasts
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
Fort Lawton has just a few hoops left to get affordable housing
The legal challenges are largely over. But there's still lots of paperwork to do before 238 low income homes are built on the former army land next to Discovery Park.
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KUOW Newsroom
This West Seattle deli owner wanted to get ahead of development rules. So he built apartments himself
Some mom and pop developers in Seattle are finding it hard to build under Seattle’s new MHA rules. The law is meant to create more affordable housing. But one unintended consequence is it may change who builds the next round of housing in Seattle.
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KUOW Newsroom
These West Seattle businesses need affordable housing to survive
You might think the high cost of housing is mostly a problem for renters. But in the West Seattle Junction neighborhood, it’s also a threat to some small businesses. They’re wondering if affordable housing built under MHA rules will come soon enough to save them.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle traffic drove the military from this place. Now locals see in it an 'opportunity of a lifetime'
The National Guard wants to give up 25 acres of Seattle real estate. Locals have an unprecedented plan to turn that land into something special for Seattle and its visitors.
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After shooting, a Central District business looks to neighborhood’s future
On Friday, May 10, five people were shot during a single day in Seattle. Three of those shootings happened at 21st and Union, in Seattle's Central District. The people who live and work in the neighborhood are trying to move on.
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KUOW Newsroom
Two Seattle construction snafus ... and what we learned from them
We still don’t have an official explanation for why a crane collapsed in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, killing four people. But we know we'll learn from it.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle may get a new neighborhood
The Washington National Guard needs a new place to park their Humvees... someplace far outside Seattle's traffic mess. So the state is studying what to do with the 25 acre property just north of the Magnolia bridge where those vehicles are currently housed. On Wednesday, members of the public shared their blue sky ideas for the property.
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KUOW Newsroom
People are thinking about cranes in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood
The roof of the Google building where the crane collapsed looks like it had a big bite taken out of it. And on the South Lake Union sidewalks below, people are looking for answers.
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'Gone but not forgotten.' Workers killed by crane remembered in notes left near collapse site
A welded metal cross. A pair of boots. And a notepad, hanging from a tree, where workers have left their thoughts.
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KUOW Newsroom
Tax hike on Amazon and Microsoft will help pay college tuition
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign a bill raising $1.5 billion in new taxes for higher education between now and 2025.