This is a great link for Belltown residents to know the history of the area. The Denny Regrade project created the foundation for the current streets and buildings.
Look at what the author wrote in 1999 about the Belltown “condo craze” – well ahead of the boom in the mid-2000’s – looks like history will always repeat itself:
In the early 1980s, developer Martin Selig launched a one-man boom of new office construction in the area. The condo craze and superheated real estate market of the Reagan years promoted more construction — and nearly bankrupted a few developers when the tax reform of 1986 popped their financial bubbles. A new round of high-rise construction and rising property values threaten to drive out the Regrade and Belltown’s surviving bohemian element. But, as of the late 1990s at least, the artistic feel continues to mingle with the upscale restaurants and clubs that are serving the many new residents.
Do you live in Belltown or interested in living in Belltown? I know a lot of people have strong feelings on the Belltown neighborhood – most of them on the positive or negative side – but few in the middle.
