Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

I miss those "Notice Of Proposed Land Use Action" signs from when I used to live in Seattle. In Minneapolis/St. Paul buildings get bulldozed and new stuff gets planned in secret, unless you go to lots of city council meetings.

i drove by this evening and expected a pile of bricks. look who's still standing!
http://i52.tinypic.com/153qhq9.jpg

wow, history:

La Dele Sines, chairwoman of the Friends of Georgetown, said the building started as an independent beer brewery in the late 1800s. It was owned by a couple of men, including one who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Continental Can, which made cans for the fishing industry, then owned the building, she said.

Germanus Wilhelm Firnstahl founded Pacific Standard Foods, maker of the Sunny Jim brand, in 1921 after he moved to Seattle from Wisconsin and bought a peanut roaster. He bought the Airport Way South plant during the Depression.

The company became the supplier of a third of all peanut butter in the Seattle area during the 1950s, before it eventually was sold in 1979 to the Bristol Bay Native Corp.

The city of Seattle purchased the building in 1991 and still owns the structure, according to property records.

the city chose james corner field operations(http://www.fieldoperations.net/)for the waterfront redesign. i went to the public presentations last week and they seemed like the most forward thinking designers. the big concern is that it's just going to be a street and a cold windswept plaza most of the year. i'm not sure just prettfying and reconnecting is going to draw people down there on a december night. but is that even possible? i'm still hoping for a restaurant/food cart/retail/housing portion, something to get more people down there at more hours, even though city council people have explicitly said it'll be a park w/o "condominiums and high rises." what about low-rises? some kind of sliver w/life, alley like, more like pioneer square. as far as art, connecting to the water, using the water, i totally have faith in james corner. i keep thinking "well they did the high line project, they'll come up with something propulsive and engaging here." i still want them to keep a piece of the viaduct up,something to climb up on, provide a different viewpoint. a little high line-esque, that. and a counterpoint to gas works, in a way.

stranger rundown: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/09/21/james-corner-field-operations-will-develop-our-waterfront

lol that link isn't going to work http://www.fieldoperations.net/

I sent an email to Mayor McGinn today supporting the KEXP/Open Platform proposal for the old Fun Forest space. I'm so dismayed at the committee recommending that fucking Chihuly museum. And of course, the Chihuly group is all organized and shit, getting people to call and email in support. It does crack me up that the "Tiger Breeding" operation made the cut :)

Oh cool, that's the walking on water guy! I'd love for them to work in a chunk of the viaduct, but yeah - something has got to keep the area vital in the off-season. Covered, water/snowproof sheltered areas where you can watch the ferries come and go.

hey tehresa, me and liz decided you are moving to portland. see u soon.

― flaccid house (The Reverend), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wkiw

what crap that chihuly museum is, what wasted space

I love and miss Seattle but the idea of a Chihuly museum in Seattle Center is exactly the kind of silliness that makes me shake my head at the place. That, and the Market Optical TV spots, maybe the worst ads I've ever seen.

But Decibel Fest starts this weekend and I can't go (sadface) so EVEN MORE ENVY than usual at those of you still around.

The smoke pouring over I-5 from the Sunny Jim plant smelled like peanuts, as did my car all day yesterday.

the worst thing about the chihuly museum is that there are underused parking lots on all sides of seattle center. really, you're so into ugly glass art you need a museum for it? great, buy one of those lots and expand seattle center *out* instead of taking public space. dicks. as someone somewhere else said, "we're taking ideas from tacoma?!?"

who is liz?
portland made me sad.
hi jill!

the blue is where locals took pictures. the red is where tourists took pictures

jobs should be banned, make everything free, it's my new economic theory

portland made me sad.

this is actually our city's motto, so.

i assume by liz, rev is talking about my girlfriend btw.

portland>>>seattle

I get most of the landmarks in that picture above, but what are all the locals taking pictures of around the fremont bridge? It can't all be the troll.

Lenin, missile, center of the universe, waiting for the interurban probably

bar-hopping too?

<3<3<3 airport way s getting so much attention

moving here in november

i assume by liz, rev is talking about my girlfriend btw.

― Clay, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:30 PM Bookmark

yes

Hey Rev, you heading up this way anytime soon? (like maybe nov 6th would be nice).

Buzza, where are you moving to Seattle from?

maybe. what's going on nov 6?

Listening club

Sunny Jim fire caused by a squatter's camp stove: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/427280_fire24.html

Maps Show Racial Makeup of Major Cities, Including Seattle

here's the big-size seattle one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4981415821/sizes/l/in/set-72157624812674967/

(White is pink; Black is blue; Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green.)

WHO LIVES IN SODO that's all i wanna know. need to do some census investigation

http://i55.tinypic.com/2yosh1z.jpg

mmatos lived somewhere along the tracks in Sodo ages ago, but he is the only person I know of who has. Must be all loft type spaces?

buzza you are moving to seattle??

NW Tea Festival next weekend at Seattle Center. I went last year - $5 gets you a teacup and a big bag of freebies and all the tea you can sample.

The people-watching potential (bathroom lines + caffeine jitters) must be A+++.

As festivals go, it's pretty small scale - maybe 2 dozen vendors. This is such a coffee town, tea caffeine doesn't touch us.

aww, last year tea festival was the day we had brunch and i met kate and my couch came! trying to plan a hike for this weekend and options are not good :( miss seattle so much right now!

srsly these hikes are like the same elevation gain as my daily walks up qa hill :(

tehresa is trying to make me cry.

and me too - miss you both!

miss seattle

<3 u all

seattilxor diaspora

it was v v pretty here today

it's been v v pretty in portland, too

wish i could plan a trip for soul weekender in november :(

I haven't been to seattle in over two years now but am going to be soon - where should I eat?

my 2 new favorite breakfast places, both south of downtown:

http://www.thesalvadoreanbakery.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pasteleria-y-panaderia-la-ideal-seattle

the latter isn't a sit-down place, but you can take pastries and go over to where they're tearing down the south park bridge and sit and eat and look at the river.

Ha! Jen and Jill have been staying with Kate Silver and myself! Seattle diaspora unite for real!