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The places you lose when you don’t build housing where housing goes

Gentrification can just as easily come from things not changing as it does from them changing.
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It’s impossible to beat an authentic dive bar. Like, the actual real thing—which can be something of a challenge to find in Seattle. We’re talking the Waterwheel Lounge, Leny’s Place, Loretta’s Northwesterner and a number of other spots in a decreasingly eclectic city.

Madison Park’s The Attic, which closed recently as it transitions to new undership under prominent Seattle resteranteur Ethan Stowell, is not a dive bar—despite what the Times says.

Its closure …

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