Coronavirus In Seattle: Impacts on Economic Growth
As Coronavirus (Covid-19) impacts Seattle more and more, what kind of changes it will bring to the region and city that has seen it become the 3rd fastest growing city in the country. Seattle’s relationship with growth has always been ambivalent. Will attitudes about growth and new development change if the local economy takes a […]
Thoughts on 2019 and 2020: What’s Next is Up to You
I had written a longer post on this topic but it disappeared. Maybe that’s a good thing since that post expressed a lot of frustration with where we’ve been in not just the last year but the last six years. So here’s another try and we’ll see if the hacker or internet gods let this […]
Can You Believe It? It’s Here. It’s Happening, a Ban on Evictions.
I’m not sure what will wake up Seattle’s sleeping business and real estate community. Maybe the slumbering giant isn’t asleep; maybe it’s dead. But perhaps the move by the Seattle City Council to ban evictions 5 months out of the year could raise the dead. To the general public, this idea of not “kicking people […]
