Seattle Bubble Forum Archive

Like much of the city, Ballard is being transmogrified by yuppie wealth. The shift is especially obvious here.

It will certainly be interesting to see what the effect of all the new condos will be on the demographics. Assuming they fill up, that will be about 800 new yuppies all crawling around market street. (And I thought parking was bad now!)

Granted, I don't think there's any chance these places will be more than 50% occupied in the next 2 years, if their sister projects are any indication of their potential success.

Something needs to be done about the "look" of the residential areas and main streets. It may take another decade or two before people start fixing up their homes and yards to the same degree as Wallingford and Greenlake. Right now, there are far too many residents that bought there because it was cheap, and have no intention of keeping up appearances for the new yuppies on the block.

Like much of the city, Ballard is being transmogrified by yuppie debt. The shift is especially obvious here. Fixed that.

There are so many family-owned small businesses there that have few other places to go. I hope they can hang on until things cool off a little.