The Nightmare Before Isthmus, Part II

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The Nightmare Before Isthmus, Part II

Submitted by jlw on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 9:15pm.

The view from the Capitol Campus.

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Honestly,

Submitted by Just another voice on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 9:31pm.

Scenarios A & B seem fine to me.

The price of progress is growing up.

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Is it?

Submitted by jlw on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 10:24pm.

I'd hate to see Olympia "grow up" and lose her beauty.

I see these new buildings as

Submitted by Just another voice on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 11:40pm.

I see these new buildings as the solution to filling up the vacant lots downtown-- of which we have far too many.

I think new buildings downtown and on our waterfront will enhance the beauty of Olympia. It will provide infill, and new streetscapes that will provide greater identity to our core.

And to everyone saying it is just bringing "yuppies" downtown and condos-- so what! That doesn't mean you won't be enjoying the stores that will be on street level.

A spurt of life in our core might do us good. It is working in Bellingham, which is like Olympia in so many ways. They just finished several projects, and are now starting a large low-income housing building in downtown. And it wouldn't have happened unless expensive condos started popping up and breathing life into parts of town that were once just vacant lots.

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Triway doesn't exactly have a great record

Submitted by jlw on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 6:51am.

People who bought homes in Cooper Crest aren't happy with Triway. Are we expecting them to do better on the isthmus, which is low-lying fill subject to flooding?

Triway is repairing those

Submitted by wilson on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 8:12am.

Triway is repairing those problems as we speak. As far as a track record I would look at the 50 projects completed before I would look at one developments excavation/drainage problems. Cooper Crest was also the first development of it's kind in the south sound, it was bound to have problems.

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