The sun shone down on the crowd, which spilled from a courtyard into the street on 24th Avenue in the Central District. A young child waited for his cue, and then sliced through a tri-colored ribbon: red, the color of blood; black, the color of skin; green, the color of land.
“May the doors open and may the ribbon be cut,” Dr. Marcia Tate Arunga intoned.
And so, Seattle’s newest affordable housing complex, the Liberty Bank Building, opened. ...