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Doug Trumm🚶🏽‍♀️🚴🏾‍♂️🚎
@dmtrumm
Seattle landmarks program seems mostly to be failing. A labor temple is turning into a club for corporate tycoons and we're worried about brick color? If you destroy the function, the form seems of little consequence.
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Qagggy!
@Qagggy
Belltown's Labor Temple, now in capitalist hands, will be getting painted brick along the roofline and a new lobby.
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Joe Miz
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interesting problem bc preserving the function involved still operating unions who tired of running offices out of dilapidated building & renovations were not affordable. Ideally it could have been converted to a Seattle Labor museum but a)who pays for that & b)MOHAI exists
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Doug Trumm🚶🏽‍♀️🚴🏾‍♂️🚎
@dmtrumm
That's a good point. I'm curious if the tenants are mostly glad the building facade will remain or will it just be a reminder that capitalists have occupied the former sanctuary like a big hermit crab?
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Joe Miz
@Joe_Miz
I’m not a tenant so I wouldn’t presume to speak for them but my guess is that it was mostly a pain in the butt that impacted the sale price negatively. History is great but I’m sure most unions would rather have the $ to spend on organizing workers.
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