This development on 3rd and Pine…
If only the builders would drop what they are doing and leave things as is. How can we get them to cease and go away for good? As the day clears a morning mist, completion will clear this strange spell.
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Don’t you like giant boxes?
I know what you mean, Cholly. I love Seattle more than life itself, but it was breaking my heart living there from, say, 1998 on. That ugly sky bridge at the Convention Center, for instance, was like a stake.
I’ve moved on to Vancouver, BC which has its own problems. The newest one seems to be abandoned condo developments – abandoned because financing to continue has dried up. Even people with great credit are being denied loans these days. And then there’s the bed bug epidemic.
Still, Vancouver develops internationally instead of affluently for the most part (the Shangri-La not withstanding). An area goes Korean or Ethiopian, but nothing like what happened to poor old soulless Belltown (and its $30 bowls of chili) seems to happen here all that often. Sadly, it’s become de rigueur in Seattle.
Originally planned as part of the failed Hotel 1 in the pit to the west. Now fitted to be an outpost of Columbia Sportswear, which just announced it was canning 4 percent of its workforce in the face of declining orders. This will work out really well. Really well.
Is that the infamous Paul Schell gift to the downtown business association?
The only good thing about Downtown Seattle is that its a magnet for hapless developers to spend billions of money in search of the 40 or 50 Seattlites who actually dress nicely and buy expensive stuff.
What was that about bedbugs?
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Baby, baby
Im aware of where you go
Each time you leave my door
I watch you walk down the street
Knowing your other love youll meet
But this time before you run to her
Leaving me alone and hurt
(think it over) after Ive been good to you ?
(think it over) after Ive been sweet to you ?
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over
Think it over
Ive known of your
Your secluded nights
Ive even seen her
Maybe once or twice
But is her sweet expression
Worth more than my love and affection ?
But this time before you leave my arms
And rush of to her charms
(think it over) havent I been good to you ?
(think it over) havent I been sweet to you ?
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over
Think it over
Ive tried so hard, hard to be patient
Hoping youd stop this infatuation
But each time you are together
Im so afraid Ill be losing you forever
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Baby, think it over
Think it over, baby
Ooh, think it over baby…
meh. its not GOOD but ill take it over an ugly parking garage that contributes nothing anyday.
actually, that parking lot is historic – look it up, i’m not kidding. it’s a construction design and method that isn’t used anymore. check out the awesome waffle slabs! when it was constructed it was revolutionary. the curves of the ramps are actually pretty beautiful if you look at it from an angle.
oh, also, the regional-esque wood cladding? not loving it, not at all.