More tax subsidies for the rich.

Just like the Billionaires Tunnel.

"Revitalized" is an interesting way to spell "completely flattened". Isn't that whole area supposed to be erased and encased in concrete as part of the immense portal? I think 90% of my misgivings about the tunnel have to do with its above-ground effects.

I'm surprised they didn't change the map orientation to make it an inverted pink triangle.

"Uptown?" WTF. DENNY REGRADE, YOU BUNCH OF CUNTS.

Their website says the "stakeholder working group" isn't at all near design decisions, but the page has these two overhead views of showing the Sixth either going around the Gates Foundation doohickey or through it:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct…

Have these businesspeople actually been in this area lately? This sounds fine until you actually look at it. There can't be more than six under-utilized blocks in that triangle after you take out Fisher Plaza, the monorail going over Fat City, the brand new Hyatt, the brand-new Taylor 28 apartment complex, and SCL's massive Broad Street substation. So what's that leave? The McDonalds, a few crappy low-rise hotels (Travelodge, Best Western, Seattle Pacific) and the empty block where the tunnel portal will be built.

So what exactly are they wanting to tear down and redevelop? If they want to redevelop some of the neighborhood, there's some nice underutilized land between Denny and Thomas, Fairview and Terry.

I have heard of the Denny Triangle near that location. I think that's the same thing but maybe this is the cool "rebrand".

I love all the No Parking For BMGF Construction signs all throughout the area.

People really hate how the non-tax-paying foundation is destroying the neighborhood and also wants to foist a Chihulhy Museum on their public parkland in Seattle Center.

@8, it's not a neighborhood.

@5, just look at the vast amount of nothing in those pictures. The total footprint there is immense. I'm not sure people grasp just how much nothing is going in there; to be honest, the Gates Foundation buildings are already a massive blight of nothingness -- such a great cityscape-stitching opportunity lost. How was that thing ever approved? It's the most anti-urban building I've seen this decade.

"Uptown" is yet another of those fatuous re-branding monikers (cit ref "West Edge") concocted by an advertising agency for a bunch of developers and property owners, and is a name no actual person (including those who live in the area) ever use - Uptown Espresso being the sole legitimate exception.

This is Lower Queen Anne; always has been, always will be.

@9 - The Gates thing looks less like a building than a sort of redoubt, the void around it purposebuilt as a moat.

COMTE - And surely the Uptown movie theater.

But yes, sorry, it's Lower Queen Anne regardless of how many signs they put up.

its the fucking Regrade you real estate bitches. the Denny Fucking Regrade. remember the real estate bitches that fucking tore down the hill? thats yer fucking Regrade.

similarly the Pearl District in pdx used to be know as Slab Town. an on.

@9 people live there.

Which means it's a neighborhood, dip shiite.

Maybe they can make the Broad Street Substation into some sort of thrill ride for the Mountain Dew set.

"Historically" should refer to more than the past 60 years. A few hundred years ago it was a forested hill, white people moved in roughly 1880, they regraded the hill in the late 1920s just in time for the Depression. That's why it and the "Denny Triangle" are full of parking lots and warehouses. It's a great location, just few people had money to build from about 1930-1950 or else it would look more like LQA. If you look at Denny Park Lutheran Church's history writeup, they moved there because the land was so cheap after the regrade. Then, roughly 1950-2000 or so was all about sprawl and more parking. In the past 10 years as noted above there has been a decent amount of development, especially along Denny Way. (By the way, note how the name "Denny" keeps coming up? This was where David Denny lived, in a house at what is now Dexter and Republican.)

@17 At the hostess cake shop? Watch episodes of Dexter on TBS at Dennys.