Skyline Happenings

Bring your partners and come on down to the Freeway Park Square Dance on Thursday August 25th from 6 – 9pm!  Square Dancing in the park will feature the Rabbit Stew String Band and a caller from the Seattle Subversive Square Dance Society.

No experience necessary! thanks to expert caller Gabe Strand

Dirty Dogs will be selling grilled sausages (first 50 are free). Loads of other activities are planned and there’s a raffle prize for all the do-si-doers.

Click here for info: SquareDance_2016_8X11

From Crosscut: “In the next 15 years, Yesler Terrace will change in ways and to a degree never before seen in Seattle.

“The $1.5 billion project to redevelop the neighborhood will lead to massive increases in housing and job opportunities. And what was once a small, low-income neighborhood — home to a diverse spectrum of folks from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds — will soon become a sprawling hub of economic opportunity for mixed-income residents. The population will go from 1,200 people to anywhere between 6,800 and 8,300 people to make Yesler Terrace by far the densest neighborhood in Seattle, with more business as well. If it all goes according to plan, the neighborhood will blossom into the homogenous, mixed-income focal point this city never knew it needed — or wanted.

“It sounds great for the city, but for the residents of Yesler Terrace, one of the city’s early public housing projects, one word comes to mind: gentrification.”

Click here to read the full article.