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Originally Posted by mSeattle
I included the maps to show that "downtown" is somewhat amorphous. There's a place that carries the name but the boundary can differ. Central City or City Center can differ as well. Capitol Hill/First Hill/SLU are not called "Downtown". It is almost always distinguished as being different from "Downtown". This thread says "Seattle | Downtown..." That's why I created the "Seattle City..." thread to compile projects for everywhere else.
However, if other areas that are not named "Downtown" are somehow also "Downtown" then I suggest having them in the "Downtown" thread. You just have to decide which side of the street will be included and which will not. 
If we want to compile tall and short for the entire city limit proper, then that's fine too. We can just remove "Downtown" from the thread title and have the two threads merged. I guess I'm saying that it seems less clunky to have a height division than a geographic division if was keep two threads. |
There seems to be two things going on here. First, Downtown Seattle is growing.....it may seem amorphous to you but that's the nature of an area that's expanding. The Downtown Seattle Association, the PS Business Journal and the Chamber all treat SLU as if its part of DT. Going back to this forum's inception, SLU projects have been posted on this forum......a de facto acceptance of SLU's role in DT. The placement if Amazon's headquarters nearly midway between SLU and the retail core has strengthened that perspective.
When you proposed setting up a separate forum for the rest of the city, I said back then I felt SLU was part of DT but I also made clear that if there was overlap, that's okay too. If SLU projects are posted in both forums, how does it hurt anyone? I also believed there was enough construction going in Seattle that two forums were justified. That is typical of most cities in SSP seeing heavy development right now. And if its about the name........let's make clear this is the DT Seattle forum as opposed to the Seattle [rest of city] forum.
The second issue you've raised which I don't understand is your wanting to make distinctions in height. Its my understanding that compilation forums can include bldgs. of all heights in the discussion and that's the way this forum has been since the getgo. As Shakman points out, a forum already exists for highrise, supertall and general development. Why do you think there is a need to change the current arrangement?
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Which that? I'm not an administrator so we'll be asking someone else to make the change, whatever it is.
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