Looks like Lynnwood and others are capitalizing on this to increase housing around the light rail station:
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As if Sound Transit needs any more reasons to delay and rethink and collect community input on the West Seattle link.
I think there’s a number of things in play. The fact that there’s a large number of addicts hanging out between Westlake and Pike Place makes it not a super fun place to go. This mall also tried to go for the high end stores and there wasn’t as much mid tier stores and businesses (IMO) which attracts a larger base of people.
I didn’t see any references to the homeless in this post and it contained a lot of good insights and discussion about preparedness. Sadly the WA state doesn’t open up a thread on Lemmy yet. One day