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Residents of the nieghborhood wonder if their slice of town will become

Published 7:00 am Monday, September 24, 2012

Residents of the working-class, South End neighborhood say they've been dumped on enough.
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Residents of the working-class, South End neighborhood say they've been dumped on enough.
Residents of the working-class, South End neighborhood say they've been dumped on enough.
The city looked at nearly 1,000 possible locations for the 19-acre waste station before whittling the list down to 12.
Smarty Pants' manager Sam Oldfield: The trains don't wake me up, but the trucks do.
The proposed Georgetown location is between I-5 and Airport Way South and is currently home to a handful of light-industrial businessesaE”including one that recycles concrete and another that reclaims computers.
Oldfield concedes that the neighborhood's industrial flavor was largely what drew her here two years ago. Seattleites from all corners of the city are increasingly making the neighborhood a destination for something different.
In order to truly understand the neighborhood's war-torn psyche, it's necessary to reach back to its roots. Georgetowners have long been wary of their neighbors to the north.
Georetown is where Seattle put its industry, freeway, airport, train tracks, and smokestacks. Houses were mostly chased out by the 1970s.
Fourth-generation Georgetowner Marianne Clark: For me, it's like another piercing of your heart.
The city predicts that the Georgetown station would attract an average of about 700 truck trips per day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Kathy Nyland, chair of the neighborhood merchants association, calls the compromise idea from Richard Conlin a land grab.

Residents of the nieghborhood wonder if their slice of town will become the new city dump.Published on September 10, 2007

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