From Tacoma to Ballard, light-rail changes, soaring real estate prices bring a cascade of new costs
Elected officials hope to perform a good deed for Seattle’s Chinatown International District by stretching a future light-rail tunnel south to Sodo rather than impose a messy cut-and-cover excavation on Fifth Avenue South where people and shops congregate.
But that choice, and many others from Ballard to Tacoma, are generating