Liberal Talk Radio

Brendan Kiley has an engaging feature on Seattle Center in this week’s Stranger. There are four options on the table for how to modernize the place, and Kiley is advocating for the fourth, Plan 4, which would go the farthest in turning the Center into more of a park (the Times has a video fly-through here).

But while the article is rich on historical anecdotes and good at laying out the various options, it doesn’t actually build a solid case for Plan 4, except for an impassioned plea tacked on in the last two or three paragraphs. I’m sympathetic to the argument, but we need more covincing. The Seattle School District wants to keep Memorial Stadium (which Kiley accurately describes as “airlifted from Pyongyang”), which would prevent a lot of the more aggressive changes. Do they have other options? Could they hold their big football games at, say, Ballard or Franklin High? Inquiring minds want to know!

Maybe it was clipped due to space constraints, but there’s a chunk of article missing there where we find out more about how a more park-like Seattle Center would work and what we’d do with all the displaced tenants. I want to read that article, too.