"Beloved" gas station? whoa.

@1 Strange but true. After the signs when up saying gas was done, people started delivering flowers. Also those guys are true blue awesome, providing free parking in their lot most nights and doing minor emergency fixes for free on occasion. They rule. Just like keeping people in homes/apartments long term strengthens community ties, so do long term businesses.

@2: I think it's the reverence to fossil fuel capitalism that offends @1's delicate sensibilities.

I hate learning about a cool person from their epitaph. :(

Will BML protest Uncle Ike's gas station as well?

Mike Burke is getting PAID. I'd sell it too. Eff the neighborhood, show me the MONEY$$

I've lived in Seattle for 22 years. Spent many of them living on the Hill a few blocks from this place. Never, in all my time here, have I known one person who was ever a customer there or even considered it. There was nothing about this place that seemed to be focused on community or even looking particularly open. Let's save the crocodile tears. It's a gas station/garage. It's a waste of space in the densest part of Seattle that could be used a lot more efficiently.

@6 - Same here.

@6: You're right. A Starbucks and a Williams-Sonoma would look nice there.

Excellent place for a Wal-Mart

NO!, Micro-Apodments DAMMIT!! it's all about the Density.

@8- what I meant was something more like livable, affordable housing. You can go to the suburbs for your new set of Le Creuset.