[mSeattle]

http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/images/newsreleases/2006/November/20061130_pid28501_aid28500_tower_w600.jpg

Planners seek UW occupants for newly acquired properties
http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=28500

[mhays]

Fascinating, and great picture! You wouldn't know it, but this is the #2 census tract in the Northwest in terms of residential density, at 42,500/sm in 2000.

I was astonished a couple years ago to hear that the lots on the right have been kept vacant for decades by the business community, which wanted to keep the parking. Only now are they thinking of redeveloping, and even then they'll only do it if they can build replacement garages.

As for the UW, the two surface lots and the pancake place scream for new housing.

[seaskyfan]

I'm glad to read that they'll be closing the employee cafeteria in the old Safeco Tower. That should help get workers out into the neighborhood during lunch.

[PDXPaul]

I'd kill to have street parking so I could bring my car up without paying 60 bones a month to park in our apt's garage.

Build the garages!

[northface]

UW should redo the exterior on the safeco tower..and put a nice big cool purple and gold sign on the top of the tower...with the "W" logo. :D

[mSeattle]

I'd kill to have street parking so I could bring my car up without paying 60 bones a month to park in our apt's garage.

Build the garages!

You don't use FlexCar? You get a discount as a student.

[SEA-TOWN]

Fascinating, and great picture! You wouldn't know it, but this is the #2 census tract in the Northwest in terms of residential density, at 42,500/sm in 2000.

I was astonished a couple years ago to hear that the lots on the right have been kept vacant for decades by the business community, which wanted to keep the parking. Only now are they thinking of redeveloping, and even then they'll only do it if they can build replacement garages.

As for the UW, the two surface lots and the pancake place scream for new housing.

I'm guessing that doesn't include Vancouver... What is the densest residential tract in the Northwest?

[mhays]

I mean Northwest US, not Northwest Pacific Ocean.

A tract on Capitol Hill was around 45,000/sm in 2000.

[bgwah]

You wouldn't know it, but this is the #2 census tract in the Northwest in terms of residential density, at 42,500/sm in 2000.

Maybe, but I would guess that it is #2 in density because of this (
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.662163~-122.309222&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3693541 ) and not what is shown in the picture.

[mhays]

That's frat row. Does the census even count people who aren't year-round residents?

If not, I'd peg the reason on a lot of people with roommates in small units.

[bgwah]

That's frat row. Does the census even count people who aren't year-round residents?

If not, I'd peg the reason on a lot of people with roommates in small units.

I'm pretty sure students must count. Pullman, Ellensburg, and Cheney would have much smaller populations if students were not counted.

Anyway, curiosity got the best of me. Here is a picture of it's location. Below it, the tract's density by block.

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/346/fratdensitygp1.png

There are 8,509 people in the tract... 2,980 are in that one dark green block at nearly half a million people per square mile.

[mhays]

Wow! That's quite a great tool you found. My question is answered.

The district ought to show a fair amount more density on the upper left for the next census -- though really, much of the growth is just to the right of the census tract shown, such as the housing to the right of "lot 2" in the photo.

[PDXPaul]

You don't use FlexCar? You get a discount as a student.

Gotta be 21 for Flexcar.