Tough run-down, crime-ridden areas do get changed. You can find a number of districts in Seattle or Portland that have been changed, and in many ways improved. But can you do it drawing out of the area’s original character and without – it has to be said – gentrifying the area, to the point that few of its original residents can even live there anymore?
Question arises on North Aurora in Seattle, a street we’ve watched periodically over the years and which clearly needs, as the phrase goes, some spray ‘n wash. How to deal with it well is a tough question. A useful piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today addresses some of that without glossing over the difficulties. It has some depth, and it’s worth a good review.
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