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These gardeners must raise 2 million dollars to save their P-Patch

Here's why they think they'll succeed.

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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.

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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.

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At the birthplace of Seattle karaoke, two different visions for the future of the CID

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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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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.

How an invisible Seattle neighborhood is making itself known, one mural at a time.

Lake City is a neighborhood at a tipping point.

Immigrant-owned businesses sue over displacement in SeaTac

Immigrant business owners south of Seattle say they're being displaced - and now, they're suing.

What should happen to the old, majestic Weyerhaeuser campus in Federal Way?

Weyerhaeuser abandoned all that when the company moved its headquarters from Federal Way to Seattle two years ago. And now, everyone seems to have a different vision for what this land should become.