KUOW Newsroom With light rail as fuel, Seattle's Northgate is ready to grow This week, a lot of people tried light rail and got off at Northgate to look around. As they exited the station, many of them were greeted with a neighborhood undergoing massive change.
KUOW Newsroom How community pressure helped rebuild Black-owned businesses in Seattle's Central District When Paul Allen’s development company, Vulcan, bought a strip mall and a grocery store in the Central District years ago –many residents had concerns. The community did not want to become like another neighborhood Vulcan redeveloped: South Lake Union. So the neighborhood pushed back.
What A 30,000-Person Survey Reveals About Day-To-Day Life In The Pandemic The responses reveal the impact on living standards in nine low- and middle-income countries — and may help governments find a way to help citizens most in need.
KUOW Newsroom The river runs alarmingly low in North Bend It’s been raining this July, but much of Washington is still in a drought, because of our hot, dry spring and early summer. Just 30 minutes outside Seattle, in the town of North Bend, most development is on hold till an issue of water is resolved.
Seattle plans to tap sales tax for affordable housing For the State of Washington, the sales tax is a firehose of money. For ages, cities have wanted to poke a straw into that firehose and get just a teensy bit of what's flowing inside. During the last legislative session, cities finally got that wish.
KUOW Newsroom These gardeners must raise $2M to save their P-Patch Here's why they think they'll succeed.
KUOW Newsroom This West Seattle parking lot is chock-full of drama Seattle is famous for its neighborhoods – but epic growth is bringing big changes, and lots of tension. One place that tension’s bubbling over is in parking lots. They’re an obvious place to build housing, but merchants need them to draw customers.
KUOW Newsroom In Rainier Beach, neighbors have a dream, but developers are holding cards close to their chests. In Rainier Beach, non-profit groups want any development that comes in to help the neighbors who live there now. And development seems likely, as recent upzones raise the height limit on some properties from four stories to twelve. Developers are holding their cards close to their chests. Rainier Beach is prepared to turn to civil disobedience if developers don’t listen.
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.
