Growth

Migration to booming 'Zoom towns' in Pacific Northwest sends home prices into overdrive

You can add a new term to your lexicon: "Zoom towns." These are scenic places experiencing a surge of house hunters. Booming demand comes from workers...

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Vashon Island ‘Band of Brothers’ program focuses on identity and healthy masculinity

‘One of the things that surprises me is how contagious vulnerability can be.’

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How to keep a seafood shop — and a marriage — fresh for 70 years

University Seafood and Poultry has been run by the Erickson family for 75 years. But now, the owners are closing down the business in Seattle's U-District neighborhood for good. KUOW asked them the secret to running the shop as a couple and staying married for all that time.

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Friday politics: Is Seattle's Showbox deal an 'ugly, unfair' mini-victory?

Angela King talks with political analysts C.R. Douglas and Joni Balter about a deal that could keep the music venue in business in downtown Seattle.

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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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In Rainier Beach, home owners hope to survive Seattle upzones

Nowhere more than Rainier Beach is both the promise and the threat of growth so apparent.

Backyard apartments under consideration, again, in Seattle

Rules to allow more backyard cottages and mother-in-law units could get approved in Seattle in the next four weeks.

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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.

Seattle’s push for more backyard cottages could get a boost from Olympia

Lawmakers in Olympia support backyard cottages for different reasons, but their goals are the same: To increase density in urban single family neighborhoods where the cost of housing continues to rise. The product of their efforts could be a statewide law that leapfrogs Seattle’s proposed new backyard cottage law, currently delayed by a legal dispute.

The new levy would almost double parks spending.

King County is asking voters to tax themselves to improve parks and trails. We probably will.