Links a go go
Tim Harris of Real Change re: Jail Proposal: it's still bullshit, and then some.
Still slightly under the radar: not a single thing in Georgetown made the Weekly's "Best of Seattle" list. [UPDATE: except for this little diddy, which seems to be a result of an aggressive marketing campaign rather then popular votes]
South Seattle's "green" movement (belated article).
East Marginal/Carleton/8th Ave S. visioning, August 13th.
Housing is getting more affordable in SE Seattle.
Judge elections on the ballot got you confused? Try this.
And finally: an unlikely seer.
4 comments:
Maybe one of the reasons that housing prices are falling in that area is that it's one of the few areas in the city where you see multiple shootings in one night.
http://rainiervalleypost.blogspot.com/2008/08/south-precinct-community-newsletter.html
I know it sours me on the neighborhood.
That's one way of looking at it--although, certain parts of SE Seattle have had ongoing problems with crime, with the normal dips and valleys that go along with it.
The pricing in SE probably already adjusted to that but it might also may be that houses during the frenzy there were more over priced then houses in other parts of Seattle, because no one could get into much of anything for less then 300k. Now that things have "cooled off" the proportional adjustment of the real value probably reflects that, and there may be even more denial by sellers that the houses will go for as much as their asking, because they were banking on 8% annual appreciation for the rest of their life.
Ah, I found one thing about Georgetown on their Best of Seattle list - Best New Townhouse Row.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/bestof/2008/award/best-new-townhouse-row-yes-there-is-such-a-thing-476939/
PB Elemental: "we don't do picket fences, but we do stuff ballot boxes and spam blog threads as part of a grassroots marketing strategy for overpriced condos."
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