I promise this entire series won't just be me bad-mouthing Queen Anne, but some of this stuff is just too funny. Have you noticed the various brick patterns and types around this building? Probably not, since it looks like basically any modern apartment building, but Queen Anne residents spent months if not years (and hundreds of thousands of dollars of Safeway's money) debating exactly what type of brick should be used, along with other minutia about things like exactly where the signs go and what they say. In the end, this project was a poster child for how inefficient and dysfunctional Seattle's land use review processes are, and almost single-handedly led to significant revisions to the process in recent years -- though I'm sure the wealthiest neighborhoods, including Queen Anne, would still be able to find ways to stall housing construction.
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