As a developer looks to turn the Liggett Building, an empty historic office building in downtown Seattle, into apartments, KIRO host Gee Scott asks why not?
“It makes way too much sense to take some of these vacant, empty spots and turn them into an opportunity for people to live, and by the way, it shouldn’t be hard for Seattle, because right now Seattle got a Bellevue problem,” Gee said on “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “Everybody is closing up shop, moving, and a lot of times they move over to Bellevue. So why not? Why not have a situation where some of these empty spots can be used for living? Let’s do that.”
He believes one of Washington’s biggest issues is with inventory, dating back to the Great Recession…