November 30, 2007
In this episode:
The Changing Face of Ballard
One of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods is getting an extreme makeover. Ballard is booming with new condos, new restaurants and new businesses. The area once known as a quaint Scandinavian corner of the city is becoming one of the hippest and hottest spots in town to work, live and play. But is the modernization of Ballard tearing the neighborhood apart? We take a closer look at how times are changing in Ballard, and how it's setting a trend for the rest of the city.
Related Links
Seattle Post Intelligencer's Ballard webtown resource for the Ballard community.
The Ballard News Tribune, a newspaper dedicated to the people and issues of Ballard. Hear what other people are saying with its online message board.
Seattle housing market stays strong, especially for condos.
Why condos, instead of houses or apartments, mean big bucks in Ballard
Atlantic article discussing real estate price trends in major U.S. cities. San Francisco is going off the affordability charts and St. Louis is the most affordable see how Seattle compares.
Crosscut.com
Join Enrique Cerna in an interview with Crosscut.com's publisher David Brewster discussing whether it is getting too expensive to live here. Is the Real Estate market sustainable or are we out-pricing ourselves? Are other cities developing a better model? See Brewster's recent article citing Dallas as a key model.
Dialogs in Democracy
This fall, By the People and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation gathered a random sampling of Americans from across the country in 11 communities to discuss what America's founding fathers meant by the phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Discussions focused on how the definition of that symbolic phrase has changed over the last century and how it influences different areas of our lives. In Seattle, the discussion focused on housing. CNX was there at the University of Washington's Daniel J Evans School of Public Affairs to capture the conversation.
A MacNeil/Lehrer By the People Special Report:
"By the People is a special initiative organized by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions to bring the views of informed, "ordinary" citizens to a national discussion on the important issues of the day. BTP is partnering with Colonial Williamsburg Foundation on the Dialogues in Democracy project. Ongoing BTP funding partners include the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. By the People is nonpartisan and doesn't support any particular policy, position or viewpoint. Its sole purpose is to encourage informed dialogue."
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