The Seattle Times celebrates downtown redevelopment in its hometown of Bothell:

Bothell's re-imagining of itself has been a bold, tenacious process stretched over years, and it has been sustained through difficult economic times.

Perhaps. I don't know enough about it to suggest otherwise. But I do know that Bothell's bold and tenacious re-imagining has been built on a series of public-private partnerships—about $150 million in public dollars intended to attract about $650 million in private investment—not to mention $77 million in state funded improvements to SR-522.

You know, the same sort of public-private partnerships the paper warns against when it comes to building an arena in Sodo.

Perhaps if the Seattle Times understood Seattle as well as it understands its hometown of Bothell, its editors might be more supportive of our own redevelopment efforts? Or maybe driving development out of Seattle and into Renton, Bellevue, and Bothell is exactly the point?