Last June continued this storyline. The best-of-times Seattle market — homes under $1.5 million — are still fetching multiple offers, without contingencies, and selling in days for above the asking price.
Funding to purchase a new homeless shelter for Operation Nightwatch likely won’t make it into the next public benefits proposal for the Washington State Convention Center addition, the developer said.
Recent Washington State History Day winning exhibits from the community’s middle and high school students will be displayed at the Pioneer Hall, 1642 43rd Ave. E. from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 23.
Twenty-three years after it begun, the foundation's work awarding scholarships to students of the old Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School is coming to an end. The campus closed in 2006 -- it has since become the MLK F.A.M.E. Community Center -- and the last of the school’s students graduated high school this year.
Acid reflux and its chronic condition, gastroesophageal reflux disease (usually shortened to GERD), are so common it’s estimated that 20 to 30 percent of people experience it weekly and about 7 million people in the United States experience it chronically.
While the city of Seattle indeed is growing up with a record increase in jobs, housing, and population (now over 700,000 and leading the nation in residential growth, according to a recent Seattle Times story), Kolko communicates a false notion that somehow we here in the Northwest have overcome sprawl and its trappings (longer commutes, automobile-dependency, and increased carbon emissions). Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Greater Madison Valley Community Council completed its first annual financial review and, faced with low coffers, council board members are considering ways they can solicit donations from the neighborhood at-large.
The volunteer council held its annual election at the MLK F.A.M.E. Community Center June 20. All of the council’s existing officers and board members were re-elected, and voters elected a secretary and three additional board members.
Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow, as the saying goes. And if you want proof of that, take a look at the three mature oaks that wrap around the southwest corner of the intersection of Madison Street and McGilvra Boulevard.
Once again, supporters of an income tax on Seattle’s wealthiest residents gathered in City Council chambers, calling for more revenue to combat homelessness and support other public amenities.
It seems that whenever we open a newspaper or watch the news on television we are inundated with data about our fast-paced and highly competitive real estate market. We hear a lot about property listings receiving multiple offers, buyers waiving contingencies and homes selling well above asking price.
By training, McGloin is a Russian historian and former international journalist for Turner Broadcasting who first visited Seattle to cover the International Goodwill Games. He ended up working for Microsoft in program management and business development, then (like so many) he jumped off the corporate ship headfirst and into frontline community relations. He took over the Judkins Street Cafe in the heart of Seattle's Central District.
