Posted: Jun 25, 2012, 10:19 PM
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Socialism 4 Extreme Rich?
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Originally Posted by mhays
You're way off. Until last month, Bellevue had no highrises under construction, while Seattle had several. In general, Seattle has the lion's share of the region's housing construction right now, highrise an other types. Likewise Seattle has office buildings going up while Bellevue doesn't. Both are doing well drawing companies closer in, and keeping the companies they already have.
The last mayor was a good one. He was liked by many on the mid-left, and was also popular among developers. I attended a NAIOP (developers and brokers) breakfast where he spoke and got a nice applause, for example. He was a good transit advocate. He lost because he was perceived as not paying enough attention to the day-to-day stuff, with the main reason being poor response to one of our worst few days of snow in memory.
The current mayor is a buffoon. I like a lot of his ideas (his opposition to the 99 tunnel being the biggest exception) but he's too idealistic, rigid, and exclusionary to get much done. He's a one-termer. But that hasn't hurt Seattle's remarkable success (part luck) being a growth hot spot right now.
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Maybe we should stick to talking about Insignia.
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