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the remote geographic location that feeds a self-satisfied sense of blissful isolation, Seattle is all about its neighborhoods. A lot of us in Seattle define ourselves by what neighborhood we live in. And then there are those of us who define ourselves by the Seattle neighborhoods we'd most like to MOVE TO. For a long time, Queen Anne envy ruled the hearts of many Seattleites. And then there was Ballard envy, because Ballard was where all the artists went and reinvigorated Old Ballard, until the condo crush turned Market Street to gridlock. Now we don't have Ballard envy. We have moved on. And so, apparently, has The New York Times, a newspaper that has tracked Seattle's growing infatuation with our newest inspiration of neighborhood envy: Georgetown. This place has been the sleeper burg, even though Pearl Jam has called it their music-making home for years.
Here is how the "Surfacing" feature on Georgetown in the NYTimes begins:
"THE draw of a neighborhood bracketed by an Interstate and a Superfund-listed river is obscure. That may be what has kept the developers who rounded the rough edges off of other Seattle neighborhoods like Ballard and Fremont out of Georgetown. ...
"Before being annexed by Seattle in 1910, Georgetown was a wide-open saloon town with its own horse racing track, leading a local preacher to dub it “the cesspool of Seattle.” Built up by workers at Boeing and the Rainier Brewing Company, the neighborhood, just south of downtown, faltered in the postwar era. Interstate 5 drove a concrete and rebar stake through its heart."
Georgetown is, oddly, a breath of fresh air in a city gone made with condo construction and yuppified, albeit green & sustainable, ambition. It is a working person's neighborhood. There's a clarity of purpose to those who live and work there, not to mention some excellent local experts who blog out of Georgetown, like Blogging Georgetown.
The only problem is, like Ballard and other formerly hip and down-low Seattle neighborhoods, the fact that The Great Gray Lady newspaper from NYC has written about Georgetown could be a sign of its coming apocaplypse?
Topics: Seattle , Georgetown
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