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Perspectives
 By Clair Enlow
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March 22, 2006

Design Perspectives: Would housing cure Seattle Center's identity crisis?

  • The center is at a crossroads, and an influx of housing for artists and young families could energize the campus.
    • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Special to the Journal

    Ron Sims does not mince words about Seattle Center — when he can find them. The spectacle of wasted opportunity he sees there reduces the usually articulate King County executive to hand-waving. "It's just — well, look at it!"

    Whenever Sims comments on the center — as he has several times in recent weeks — he's clearly confident there's something better.


     
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