Editing Cascade, Seattle (section)

=== 1960s ===
The [[Seattle Times Building]] had been built in 1930 just west of Fairview Avenue.''[[The Seattle Times]]'';<ref name="Link 2004 12">{{Harvnb|Link|2004|p=12}}</ref> in the 1960s, the ''[[Seattle Times|Times]]'' purchased and razed acres of homes near its headquarters for parking lots and future development opportunities.<ref name=Fiset /> (One building they purchased was, for a time, operated as the Seattle Concert Theater, but even that was "hastily razed" in the early 1980s to "head off a landmarks designation".<ref>Eric Scigliano, [http://www.seattleweekly.com/2001-06-20/news/publisher-s-prerogative.php Publisher's prerogative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516065902/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2001-06-20/news/publisher-s-prerogative.php/ |date=2011-05-16 }}, ''Seattle Weekly'', 20 June 2001. Accessed online 6 February 2008.</ref>) Karin Link remarks: "The relationship between the ''Seattle Times'' and the Cascade Neighborhood is still considered problematic."<ref>{{Harvnb|Link|2004|p=16}}</ref>

In the 1960s, the [[University of Washington]]'s College of Architecture and Urban Planning described the area as "blighted".<ref>{{Harvnb|Link|2004|p=15}}</ref> The 1969 [[Bay Freeway (Seattle)|Bay Freeway]] plan for a proposed elevated freeway to connect Interstate 5 with [[Seattle Center]] would have cut off the neighborhood from the Lake, but was voted down in 1972. Cascade struggled on as a blue-collar residential and light industrial neighborhood.<ref name=Fiset />