I think we said goodbye to the building above twenty years ago? And fyi: building will likely be apartments.

I've only lived in Ballard for three years now and I understand why some people disliked the Denny's building...I did at first.
Then as the years went on with many nights with my friends going to one of the very few places in town that was open 24 hours and after numerous amounts of directions given over the telephone "Take a left at that weird looking building"...I think people have forgotten the role it has played in all our lives.
Only three years, but this news brings a tear to my eyes because I just thought more Ballardians would care...or at least respect its significance.
The Ballard Gateway will be no more just a Safeway, a couple gas stations, the Walgreens, and condos.

I'm with Stephen Lee..."I need a drink."

Kara Ballardians do care. That's why the majority want the thing gone. Saving a hideous building for out of towners? I think the permanent residents should come first. Whatever goes up will look infinitely better than the other three blocks at the intersection.

People calling it "hideous" are grossly overreacting - that's just silly and if your idea of high culture is huge condo buildings everywhere you look, I do wish that you would get out of town.

But going all the way over to the other side of the spectrum of "historic landmark"?? That also seems quite extreme.

The majority of people that I know would fall in the mid range - unlike yuppie elitists, they don't consider it "hideous", it has some character but not "historic landmark" level of significance.

It's not so much the building itself going away that is annoying, but rather having another massive condo construction in its place is not appealing - that seems to me to be what the majority thinks (or should think according to me anyway! :)

Yeah, God forbidden this out of towner is trying to save everything in Ballard and I'm not even from here....what is up with that.

The really funny thing is the plan to sell condos is actually slated to lose $10 million given the current occupancy rate. Good luck guys!

Can you guarantee that Biff? Can you guarantee that whatever goes there will be infinitely better than the rest of the block? Have you looked around at ALL the new construction around Seattle? The cookie cutter, perfectly square, concrete uglies that are shooting up like rockets making ALL the quirky neighbourhoods in this city look commonplace and boring?

Or is it like Michael said, the cookie cutter ugly IS your idea of better? Hmmm. Sad.

I'm not against progress....and maybe the infrastructure of the old Denny's building is compromised and should be torn down, that makes sense even as it makes me sad to see it go. I spent MANYyears there (and Sunset Bowl), what makes me even sadder still is the concrete ugliness I'm 99% sure will take it's place.

Why be a little creative and individualistic, when we can take the easy way out and look just like eveyone else.

WILL THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE SEATTLE, PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS THANK YOU! The party is over.... and so is the music!

I was born and raised in seattle... I spent some time with my Grandparents and Friends at this Denny's I was there when it was Mannings too!

Funny it all began with the stupid idea of the monorail going in, they bought the Denny's first.. the people in the monorail comission should die in a horrible fire with the building, then the benaroya folks too, how many more landmarks will we loose before seattle just goes up in a puff of dollars!

Spectators like the oil prices gong up are raping Seattle of it's past... does anyone remember the lorax? and how the onceler killed off the land that was once nice?

Denny's should have satyed but money speaks louder, wish i had all kinds of monies and a license to buy out anyone I liked! The benaroya, and any LLC crap buy them out and run them otta town go to LA! They need more building and smog!!

I would like to try to preserve at least some of seattle, like the sunset bowl, and the denny's watch watch watch mikes chili house will be next for thr wrecking ball, then the Spaceneedle and finally the Seattle Center, good bye Seattle the one i once knew... So long Fremont you funky hipopie town! So long ballard, your funkyness is dead forever Jeg Elske Deg while you were here...

Waldo Hospital up on Rossevelt, it's till there it was the old Girlscouts Hdqtr. now its up for the WRECKING BALL!!!

Seattle DIE! your not my city I grew up in, your too expensive!

NO ONE will buy those stupid condos! They will revert back into apartments, lets get rid of all the grocery stores have you noiced this trend?

Oh yeah, look at stoneway that HUGE GAPING HOLE!! for 3 years now, and GREENLAKE too Another GAPING HOLE of now 1 year, noones builing thewr its a giant mosquito pond ok, lets intoduce malaria to kill of whats left of Seattle please!!!

Seattle is turning into Bellevue part 2 the sequal! more snobbs more new building more COOKIE CUTTER SHIT! Look at Bellevue would you? Alot of the houses are all what? COOKIE CUTTER type houses that look like everyone else!!

Hmm interesting, I say nuke the 520 and I 90 build a fence around bellevue and watch the rich eat the rich!

Let;s make it a spectators sport, all this new building started in bellevue look how fast it grew over the years from a po dunk arts type town to a money money money town greed, lets infect Seattle, and really scew them up, this smells of the Sneetches, i read that al ong time ago, bellevue they have stars on their bellies Iwant one too!! lets spend spend $$ for the stars on our bellies, are we happy now?

NO! Build build cookie cutter condos!! bulldoze the past buy up land, put existing businesses out of business :0) F the people build build build progress march march march rape rape rape, squish memories F you! get outta my way Bellevues comming through, SQUISH Seattle, it's now BELLEVUE paert 2! no one can live here!!

Charge tons of money, wait! don't go you poor people, you can own this condo while we stick it to you with the OVER inflated rediculous rates ooops you owe more, max out your credit cards, you cannot get out of this, give us more money!!

Yes it sounds lile im loosing my mind but this image i see with a majority of people, and I never said any of this to anyone and all of a sudden im hearing this all over the place! NO SHIT!

Seattle your out of control, Boeing is even moving and the sonics too! Next the Mainers, and the Sounders, Seattle is becomming a HUGE CONCRETE BOIL ON AN ASS!! or a PUSS FILLED ZIT! POP!!! Ewwww look at the Bellevue scumb that built this stuff and its all falling to pieces, why toooo expensive and noe one bought any of the shtick they tried to push, oh well, im moving to calif where I can die in my apt. while it burns in the santa anna winds!