Walk Score, a site I really love, now has a ranking of Seattle’s most walkable neighborhoods. What’s really cool here, from the perspective of a web designer/developer, is the heat map and neighborhood boundary overlays they’ve done with Google maps. Good stuff. Visit site »
A beautiful New York Times infographic showing the percentage of foreclosures on sub-prime loans in metropolitan areas. Indicates that the crisis isn’t nearly as bad here in the upper left as it is in most places. Visit site »
More a piece on the dramatic growth of the South Lake Union neighborhood than on Amazon’s intentions to build a new campus there, this NYT article really quickly covers what has happened in SLU over the past few years, as well as what’s to come. The more I think about it, the more I feel like SLU is the neighborhood I’d like to live in. Visit site »
This does it — I gotta move to South Lake Union. :)
Hough-Beck and her husband sold their house in View Ridge after their daughter went off to college. They bought a 735-square-foot, one-bedroom condo at 2200 Westlake. Now she calls Whole Foods her pantry, considers downtown her playground, and looks forward to taking the streetcar to a float plane on Lake Union and flying to her Hood Canal beach house without getting in a car. Visit site »
Priced from the high 200’s. Looks nice, from what little we can see so far. Great location. Visit site »
Last night, aboard the Washington State Ferry, I was telling Michelle that I felt like if I could live anywhere in Seattle, I’d choose the heart of Belltown, right around the Market (about 15 blocks from where we currently live). Today, that exact area makes a list of America’s Top Ten Neighborhoods. Visit site »
A nicely-done piece by The Times showing home values for Seattle’s neighborhoods and suburbs. Predictably, most of the neighborhoods I’d like to buy in (Fremont, Ballard, Wallingford, Queen Anne, Lower Queen Anne, Lake Union, and Belltown) are among the most expensive. Figures. I guess that’s what I get for being unwilling to move from central Seattle. Visit site »
