TOD Boom Goes Bust in Seattle

Posted by: Nate Berg
Thanks to: Sightline Institute

7 April 2009 - 9:00am

A transit-oriented development boom in Southeast Seattle is coming to a halt, as the economic recession sets in.

"Planners, politicians and developers anticipated the coming rail line would spark a redevelopment boom that would transform the long-neglected corridor along Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. For-profit developers proposed more than 1,500 condos and apartments within a 10-minute walk of a station.

Now, with the trains to carry their first paying passengers in three months, most of those deals are on hold.

Project after project has been delayed or derailed, victimized by tight credit and related economic woes."

Full Story: Recession stalls building boom along South Seattle light-rail tracks

Source: The Seattle Times, April 6, 2009