The real champions of progress?

Something very good has the potential to take place in Ballard. A group of citizens who want to protect a part of their neighborhood’s character that is really important to them, Sunset Bowl, and a developer who is willing to seriously look at how to retain the lanes in their new development.

This could be real progress, a neighborhood and a developer willing to work with one another to build something that works for both of them while most likely each having to make concessions in order to come to a compromise. And if an agreement is made, this is the kind of situation where the city should jump in and support what is needed to make this compromise come to fruition.

And what a classic case this could be of how the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The building gets a ton of positive publicity, which increases its value to future tenants, and the neighborhood gets to enjoy the benefits of bowling and good development.

Anyway, it looks like a solution is still a long-shot, but at least the potential is still alive.

Image from Save Sunset Bowl.