It was sunny in Seattle on a recent Friday afternoon in May. It’s the kind of weather that Seattleites don’t tell people about, maybe for fear that they will drive up the prices for apartments even further than the influx of Amazon employees has.
It was the kind of day that fills up Victor Steinbrueck Park, the hilly space adjacent to Pike Place Market with views of Puget Sound and, on a clear day, the Olympics.
Members of the lunchtime crowd may not have realized, however, that the park they were enjoying might look very different in the near future. ...