by Matt Baume • May 3, 2021 at 8:30 am
Get a load of this pinko. bywriter/getty images
Mitt Romney gets a warm welcome. Or at least, as warm as he could possibly hope for thousands of people booing at him. Mitt was speaking at a Utah Republican convention, and he brought up Trump’s “character issues,” which prompted the crowd to get hostile. Some called him a “communist,” which … you know what, I’m not going to try to understand it, I’m just going to enjoy it.
Two injured in a Tukwila mall shooting. Police have not released any details about suspects, and say it was an “isolated incident.” Uh huh, sure also this weekend, three people were injured in a mass shooting in Saint Paul; four injured in a mass shooting in Delaware; two were killed and four injured in New Orleans; one killed and four injured in New Rochelle; one killed and three injured in Atlanta; five injured in Massachusetts; and one killed and three
By Tracy Record
Another twist in the ongoing saga of the West Seattle Junction’s public parking lots.
A nonprofit housing developer has made an offer to buy the land for future development, according to documents we’ve obtained.
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West Seattle Junction Association has long leased the lots, operating them as parking for customers of local businesses. Its lease requires WSJA to cover the costs of the property taxes for the lots, which finally led, earlier this year, to the lots’ conversion from free parking to paid parking. For years before that, as reported here, WSJA had been trying to strategize how to deal with the six-digit tax bill, which is approaching $200,000 a year. While the parking fees are now covering some of it, they won’t cover all. And, as pointed out in that 2018 WSB story, the lots’ long-term future as developable land has always been kept in mind – it’s a major reason why the taxes have gone up.
Rendering by SLI
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Most of the identical living modules, on levels two through five, will be manufactured offsite, then trucked to the jobsite.
Community Roots Housing has sold a development site at 14315 Lake City Way N.E. to Chief Seattle Club for almost $2.6 million. King County recorded the sale last week. Last August, Chief Seattle Club and Sustainable Living Innovations had filed a plan for Sacred Medicine House. That five-story, 120-unit project will offer permanently supportive housing for formerly homeless indigenous residents.