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Dearborn PacMed - Amazon Mountains to Sound Greenway Trail Lander Festival Street |
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Tour the Goodwill Project Check out the developer's 3-D vision. Broadband preferred. Goodwill Project Tour on YouTube Dearborn Street Coalition for a Livable Neighborhood A broad-based group of South End, Central Core, and Greater Seattle community, labor, and business organizations creating a Community Benefits Agreement for the Goodwill/TRF project. Dearborn Street Coalition Website FAQs - Dearborn Street Coalition for a Livable Neighborhood Friends of Seattle Endorses DSCLN Vision Friends of Seattle has endorsed the DSCLN effort, stating in part: "Though the development may feature up to 200 affordable housing units run by the Seattle Housing Authority, the commercial scale of the project (two big-box retailers) and bloated parking garage could overwhelm the local neighborhoods." |
Livable South Downtown Plan The Livable South Downtown Plan has important implications for quality of life on Beacon Hill. More info, see Livable South Downtown. Downtown
Emergency Service Center - The Downtown Emergency Service Center may build a 75 apartment unit for chronically homeless people at 10th Ave. S and Dearborn, between I-5 and the Dr. Jose Rizal Bridge. It's part of a 10-year plan to end homelessness in King County. Meetings have taken place in Chinatown/ID. The project is currently on hold as soil conditions require substantial stabilization before development. Is
letting them drink working? Emergency shelter director makes case for homeless home in the ID International Examiner, Nov. 15 - Dec. 5, 2006 I.D.
resists idea for homeless housing Committee
to End Homelessness in King County Community Traffic Plan A South Beacon Hill Neighborhood Council traffic plan is part of the mitigation package for the Goodwill / Dearborn St. development. |
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Important Public Paperwork on the Goodwill Project |
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Notice
of Direction's Recommendation on Rezone Application, Environmental
Determination and Public Hearing City of Seattle Dept. of Planning and Development Analysis and Recommendation of the Dearborn Project May 1, 2008 SDOT Memo on Goodwill Schedule Sept. 11, 2006 Goodwill Needs More Public Benefits Memo Oct. 6, 2006 SDOT Comments on Dearborn Draft Supplemental Environmental Impart Statement (DSEIS) Sept. 27, 2006 |
Comp.
Plan - Future Land Use Map Amendment Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Aerial Map of Dearborn Development Site Preliminary
Floor Plan (4.8 MB pdf), |
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Recent Media on Goodwill Project |
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City
planners approve proposal for Goodwill site, Little
Saigon neighborhood won't benefit from bix-bog mall Dearborn
Street project renews pledge; activists skeptical The
Dearborn Street Coalition - the hardest working group in town Anti-Development?
Not at all... Will
South End be livable after developers run through it? 500 march for Responsible, Neighborhood-friendly Development Washblog, Elana Dix, Puget Sound Sage, May 17, 2007 Save
our neighborhoods march & rally: Hundreds march to "Save Little
Saigon," but was it enough? Critics
protest plans for mall Northwest Asian News, Amy Phan, Retail
development: Convenience at a cost Easier
doesn't come easily Jerry Large, columnist, Protesters
march against Goodwill development and proposed retail stores Beacon
Hill News/South
District Journal, Peter Kearns, Little
Saigon faces a publicly subsidized big-box development Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood protests plans at Goodwill site Seattle Times, Jolalyne Houtz, April 22, 2007 Dearborn
plan adds 200 affordable apartments South
Seattle residents to protest rezone plan "Save
Our Neighborhoods!" march and rally on April 21 10-acre housing/retail project planned for Goodwill site on Dearborn Seattle P-I, Debera Carlton Harrell, April 12, 2007 Little
Saigon project's compromise effort stalls Chinatown
with No China |
Dearborn
Street Development Project: General Community &
Coalition/Proponent Discussions Summary, Safe
Passage: Bicycle boulevards coming soon to a city near you VAEDA
and DCLN coalition share vision of Dearborn Street Project Letter to
the Editor, Quang Nguyen, Who
Benefits? Before a mall reshapes the I.D., community groups want an
agreement Local activists want developers to provide community benefits, too Seattle Times, Dec. 12, 2006 Panel
passes some hot potatoes to City Council - Urban
Development and Planning Committee Dearborn
Street developer's respond Proposed
development poised to transform Central District In
the Hall: The Best-Laid Plans Neighbors
form coalition to voice concern over Dearborn development Local
activists want developers to provide community benefits, too Where
the sidewalk ends Community:
we want say in proposed mall Central
Seattle residents want delay on Target, Lowe's proposal That Sucking Sound: Big stores slurp up business of other retailers Review of "Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Business" by Stacy Mitchell, Real Change, Nov. 30 Short
Takes: Target this Big-Box
Butt-In: Goodwill "shopping" fortress" could hurt Little
Saigon, say nearby businesses Community
members say Draft SEIS for "Dearborn Street" Project is
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