My Ballard

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• 1 Suthii // Jun 5, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  Well, at least she’ll be close to a gym and Trader Joes!

• 2 Evan // Jun 5, 2008 at 10:14 pm

  With all this attention - maybe we could landmark her house as a neigborhood icon.

• 3 AkGru // Jun 5, 2008 at 11:15 pm

  She ought to open Trader Edith’s and go head to head with that loser Joe…

• 4 Ryan // Jun 6, 2008 at 7:11 am

  Anyone else curious on why this project is taking so long?

• 5 randi // Jun 6, 2008 at 7:37 am

  her house is like a middle finger

• 6 Jason // Jun 6, 2008 at 7:39 am

  Pretty typical time frame for a project this size… then again, the developers could be punishing her with the extended hours, days, months of construction… no matter how nice the construction works are to her.

  I really question if this woman… I suppose this is her legacy. Who is going to buy that house when it’s all said and done?

  It’s going to be a business, but what small business can run in a space like that, unless they rebuild, and that would be cost-prohibitive.

  A sad blight in growth.

• 7 Bella // Jun 6, 2008 at 7:46 am

  Whoever owns this development will buy her house, that’s who. I’m sure they have some sort of plan for the space’s future. But why would Edith care anyway? If she has children, I’m guessing they don’t need the house, and she needs a place to live. I’m guessing Edith bought this house however many years ago, with the intent to live in it until she died. Everyone should have the right to do that. If she does have children, she probably figures they will have the opportunity to make quite a bit of cash for their future off of her property when she is finally gone.

• 8 gooner // Jun 6, 2008 at 8:29 am

  i love edith for sticking to her guns. “a million dollars? what am i going to do with that?” of course i am paraphrasing, but that was her attitude when they tried to buy her our.

  after this is done, i would put good money down that a picture of her house, surrounded by this building will make the rounds on the internet somewhere.

  a seattle landmark in the making.

• 9 Phins // Jun 6, 2008 at 8:42 am

  “I’m guessing Edith bought this house however many years ago, with the intent to live in it until she died. Everyone should have the right to do that.”
  *Everyone does have the right to do that, and it sure looks like she is going to live here till she passes on. Is this not evident to you? Private property is an oft taken for granted right in America. Unless the state is going to build a highway (or monorail) and they seize the property via eminent domain, if you own property it is yours as long as you are here.

  No eminent domain in this case .

  I think Edith’s house in the middle of the development is quite the spectacle. Whenever I have out of town/out of neighborhood visitors I do a drive by and “show it off”. I’ll refrain from describing the most common reaction as not to rile up the old school (very in the minority) Ballard types.

• 10 Anna // Jun 6, 2008 at 10:51 am

  Can anyone say, “Italian Restaurant” By the way, Edith does not have any heirs so I suspect she is living there until her days are done.

• 11 Suthii // Jun 6, 2008 at 10:53 am

  “Edith does not have any heirs”

  What about all the Bitter Ballardites who adopted her windmill chasing cause?

• 12 JP // Jun 6, 2008 at 11:47 am

  It would be cool if there were a super-gigantic variety of sunflower taller than her house that could be grown around the lot and brighten things up a bit. (Maybe someone can paint giant sunflowers or a beanstalk on the cement walls surrounding the house.) I hope that if her house ever does go away that a little garden park is put in it’s place. Just a little spot with a bench or two for a brown bag lunch, a little foliage, a bird or two.

• 13 Kay // Jun 6, 2008 at 12:16 pm

  Did anyone see the play “Radio Golf” by August Wilson? Same exact thing, except it was Whole Foods!

• 14 Suthii // Jun 6, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  ” Just a little spot with a bench or two for a brown bag lunch, a little foliage, a bird or two.”

  Add some trash, broken bottles, bums, a chain link fence and some graffiti, and the Old School Ballardites would feel right at home.

  Now, when will Mike’s Chili be converted to an Italian shoe emporium so Mrs. Suthii will have a reason to visit the area?

• 15 rowbot // Jun 9, 2008 at 2:47 pm

  Perhaps you’d prefer a trash encrusted gelato outfit to go with the pointy shoes topped with onions and cheese over at Michaelangelo’s Scarpa Negozio…and Chile?

• 16 wolf // Jun 10, 2008 at 6:43 am

  hard to imagine the handful of people at the top of this project can kiss their children and sleep at night. the only recourse for this egregiousness would be the ghost of Edith haunting not only these people but this building for eternity.
  ” Apparition in aisle 4; possession in dairy.”
  Plague and suffering for all who profit off the suffering of others. Death and disease to your families and their pets. I hope your wives choke on Trader Joe’s olives. I hope your children fall down the elevator shaft.
  peace

• 17 Suthii // Jun 13, 2008 at 2:40 pm

  “hard to imagine the handful of people at the top of this project can kiss their children and sleep at night”

  Well I imagine all the people working on the building, getting good paying jobs, health care and a future might be grateful. That’s nothing to say all the people supplying the materials, the electricians, plumbers, brick layers. Oh, and then all the people who will work in these buildings.

  Let’s see, all those people vs. Edith?

  I think they sleep fine at night. Or maybe you can employ all these people and leave Edith be?

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