From Profanity Hill To Yesler Terrace
Rumor has it that somewhere in a forgotten corner of a basement somewhere in Seattle there's a decaying 3-D model of a brand new Yesler Terrace. It was dreamed up in the late 1960s but, like the R H...
View ArticleVulcan Bids On Yesler Terrace Makeover
The Seattle Housing Authority is preparing to redevelop Yesler Terrace, a 30-acre site that houses 1,200 low-income residents near the city’s downtown. Vulcan Real Estate is one of two private...
View ArticleAfter 40 Years In Yesler Terrace, One Resident Looks To The Future
Kristin O'Donnell loves meetings. "Absolutely my hobby. I do enjoy meetings," she tells me over a cup of tea in the Panama Hotel. Meetings, she says, offer a way to affect change in her community. And...
View ArticleYesler Terrace: Mixed Income Neighborhoods And The Seattle Housing Authority
When Yesler Terrace finally becomes a planned, mixed-income neighborhood in the next 10 or 15 or maybe even 20 years, it won't be the first in the city. New Holly, Rainier Vista and High Point are all...
View ArticlePortrait Of A Displaced Artist
Charles Henry Parrish is an artist. For him art is work, it's therapy, it's vocation. He has survived several upheavals in his life, and he’s about to face another.Parrish meets me at the door of his...
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