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Seattle PI on the First Church conversion, Film will be church’s last hurrah:

For the past several weeks, the Capitol Hill church has served as a backdrop and home base for the filming of “The Spy and the Sparrow,” an independent film slated for festival release later this year.
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Seattle PI, Sales centers give you a feel for your condo before it’s even built:

Condominium sales centers are becoming an over-the-top part of Seattle’s evolving construction boom as developers go to increasingly elaborate lengths to target buyers for buildings that don’t exist yet.
A few years ago, sales centers featured wallboards with little stone or wood […]

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Seattle PI, Seattle too pricey for normal people.
It is, but there must be a lot of rich people because whenever I wonder about who can afford $500k condos I just go for a bike ride down Lake Washington Blvd or a boat road around Lake Washington or the Sound and there are multi-million dollar homes […]

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A Seattle PI article from earlier in the week, Builders try to demolish homeowner ‘rights’ bill:

OLYMPIA — In Washington state, you’ve got more consumer-protection rights when you buy a $25 toaster than you do when buying a $500,000 home, says a former high-stakes trial lawyer who now heads the Senate consumer protection committee.

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I just got to San Francisco and see that everyone is blogging about today’s Seattle PI article Seattle bucks trend on slumping condos:

Seattle’s market was not to blame for a recent decision to change a planned 34-story downtown building from condominiums to apartments.

Here’s the info graphic from the article:

I’m sorry this article is just a […]

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Seattle PI, Downtown mainly a male domain:

Men are from downtown and women are from Queen Anne.
At least when it comes to buying homes.
Although, in general, single women easily outpace single men as home buyers in Seattle, the opposite is true downtown, according to Williams Marketing President Leslie Williams, whose Seattle firm works with condo developers.

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The Seattle PI finally catches up with The Stranger and The Weekly on Condos soon will replace a bit of Capitol Hill counterculture:

He said the new condos were using funky stores like his, and the idea of urban living, to lure new residents. But his store is among those being pushed out, and the developments […]

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Seattle PI, City looks at condo rules from ground up:

The first change would eliminate limits on street-level residential use on most lots that are not facing busy streets and have height limits under 85 feet. Planners would reevaluate where to allow more residential use along arterial streets after the city completes a citywide pedestrian mapping […]

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Seattle PI, State leaves condo owners in lurch (via Seattle Bubble, The Joys Of Condo Ownership):

The Ballard Square Condominium Owners Association sued the building’s developer, Dynasty Construction Co., in 2002, claiming that their recently built homes were riddled with leaks that had caused extensive building damage and asserting that Dynasty failed to meet construction […]

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Seattle PI, Condo boom just starting, experts say:

Williams, a Seattle company that works with home developers, set the tone with its invitation, noting that Seattle’s 228 households per square mile downtown lags far behind the 680 per square mile in downtown Vancouver, B.C., the 701 in San Francisco and the 3,223 in New York.

Wow, we […]

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