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Dec. 1st, 2010
Capitol Hill; butt; nails
Dec. 1st, 2010 02:47 pmI was on Capitol Hill for shrink & doc (about which more below), and I had some time in between the two, so I walked up and down Broadway and looked around.
Lots of for-lease signs on empty commercial spaces, lots of newish apartment or condo buildings (occupancy rate unknown), lots of stores I once liked gone, including Cafe Septieme and Bailey Coy Books. The places that survived seem to be the larger, older ones. Sure, some of those shops that went away were too silly even for me, but every one of them was somebody's dream.
And yes, much if not most of this is due to macroeconomic conditions, but an awful lot of it has to do with successive mayors in Seattle who were less interested in making the city safe for retailers and their customers than for property developers, or no one at all.
Before and for a time after Nibs got pregnant, that was one of our favorite places to just walk around. Even though the Wendling is now big enough to come with us, I don't think I'd suggest it. I miss the Broadway of ten or fifteen years ago.
( gross butt update )
I'll be doing my nails for my office party on the 11th. I can't remember the last time I did my nails. Tips? Assume idiocy.
Lots of for-lease signs on empty commercial spaces, lots of newish apartment or condo buildings (occupancy rate unknown), lots of stores I once liked gone, including Cafe Septieme and Bailey Coy Books. The places that survived seem to be the larger, older ones. Sure, some of those shops that went away were too silly even for me, but every one of them was somebody's dream.
And yes, much if not most of this is due to macroeconomic conditions, but an awful lot of it has to do with successive mayors in Seattle who were less interested in making the city safe for retailers and their customers than for property developers, or no one at all.
Before and for a time after Nibs got pregnant, that was one of our favorite places to just walk around. Even though the Wendling is now big enough to come with us, I don't think I'd suggest it. I miss the Broadway of ten or fifteen years ago.
( gross butt update )
I'll be doing my nails for my office party on the 11th. I can't remember the last time I did my nails. Tips? Assume idiocy.
