Bellevue buys land with eye to future - Seattle Times

June 26th, 2008
Bellevue buys land with eye to future Seattle Times, United States - 3 hours ago Sound Transit also is eyeing Northeast Sixth Street as a possible alignment for a passenger light-rail line between downtown Bellevue and the Overlake area ...

Proposed light rail project draws keen interest - Eastside Business Journal

June 25th, 2008
Proposed light rail project draws keen interest Eastside Business Journal, Washington - 3 hours ago A large crowd turned out for Monday's Council study session to hear Sound Transit staff update elected officials on a proposed East Link Light Rail project ...

Prescription for Regional Growth Could Be a Bitter Pill to Swallow

May 1st, 2008
In the ballroom of the UW Husky Union Building yesterday, at a daylong “Reality Check” event put on by the Urban Land Institute, about 300 development professionals, public officials, and land-use and neighborhood activists stood around 30 enormous tables, each with a giant map of the Puget Sound region. A box on each table contained LEGOs—each yellow block represented 2,000 new residents, and each red block represented 2,000 new jobs—and pieces of colored yarn, which represented new roads and

TIF: Another Word for Stealing

April 18th, 2008
If anyone still doesn’t believe that the whole idea of tax-increment financing, or TIF, is morally bankrupt, they only have to look at the latest shenanigans in Portland. The city took TIF money from the downtown Pearl District and used it to build a school at the opposite end of town. What’s wrong with this? TIF [...]