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Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Homelessness and Housing Advocates, Colleen Echohawk, Matt Hutchins, Nicole Macri and Paul Lambros

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Homelessness and Housing Advocates, Colleen Echohawk, Matt Hutchins, Nicole Macri and Paul Lambros

These four locals are helping change the intertwined homelessness and housing crisis in Seattle

From left: Colleen Echohawk, Nicole Macri, Matt Hutchins and Paul Lambros

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Africatown Community Land Trust President and CEO, K. Wyking Garrett

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Africatown Community Land Trust President and CEO, K. Wyking Garrett

Garrett has been challenging gentrification and advocating for affordable housing and spaces for black-owned businesses

This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. K. Wyking Garrett is a third-generation Central District resident who grew tired of watching his community being displaced by gentrification and decided to do something about it. As president and CEO of the Africatown Community…

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Sightline Institute Founder and Executive Director, Alan Durning

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Sightline Institute Founder and Executive Director, Alan Durning

Sightline Institute has produced some of the most important writings on the region’s housing shortage

This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. Over the past few years, Alan Durning, the quiet, unprepossessing founder and executive director of Sightline Institute, the state’s leading climate and housing think tank, has helped frame the debate on an astounding number of…

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Ones to Watch

Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Ones to Watch

These 13 visionaries have big things on the horizon

CEO of Grist, Brady Walkinshaw

One of Seattle's More Diverse Neighborhoods Is Bracing for Change

One of Seattle’s More Diverse Neighborhoods Is Bracing for Change

The ninth installment in the Neighborhood Walk series

COMMUNITY FIGURE: A statue of late community leader Roberto Maestas stands in the plaza of El Centro de la Raza in Beacon Hill

2 Weeks Left to Secure a Tumble Creek Homesite

2 Weeks Left to Secure a Tumble Creek Homesite

Your chance at Suncadia Resort's private community ends soon

Sponsored by Tumble Creek at Suncadia On the sunny side of the Cascades, 80 miles from downtown Seattle, Suncadia Resort has a well established and cherished legacy. Its private residential enclave, Tumble Creek, is equally beloved by those familiar. Members of this gated community and its club have the best of both worlds. Their own exclusive 2,600-acre…

Retired PNB Dancer Finds a Second Career in Skincare

Retired PNB Dancer Finds a Second Career in Skincare

This ballet-inspired skincare line, based in Seattle, deserves a standing ovation

All natural body scrub from Jordan Samuel Skin

AIA Home of Distinction: Seattle Couple Doubles Size of Small Floating Home for a Modern Upgrade

AIA Home of Distinction: Seattle Couple Doubles Size of Small Floating Home for a Modern Upgrade

Seattle professionals live the good life in their floating dream home on Lake Union

FLOAT ON :Gone is the original 679-square-foot, turn-of-the-century cottage that sat on this Lake Union raft—in its place, a 1,500-square-foot modern home that checks all the boxes on the owners’ wish list

Helping Washington Teens Get the Mental Health Treatment They Need

Helping Washington Teens Get the Mental Health Treatment They Need

Sponsored by Newport Academy Ask any parent of a teenager if their child is often moody and irritable and you are bound to receive a resounding, “Yes!” While many teenagers feel unhappy at times, others are struggling with adolescent depression, which is increasing at an alarming rate. The rate of teen depression is rising across…

The Works on First Hill Reignites the Seattle DIY Spirit

The Works on First Hill Reignites the Seattle DIY Spirit

With her business, Kellie Phelan is tapping into the DIY community

IT’S ALL ON THE TABLE: Kellie Phelan readies the big wooden table for a class in canning. The table is central to her business where people gather to learn a skill, and connect with each other

These Homes Offer the Best PNW Views

These Homes Offer the Best PNW Views

For $3 million-plus, these Bellevue, Laurelhurst and West Seattle homes deliver on the views

WINDOW WALL: This new West Seattle home offers distracting views of Elliott Bay

AIA Home of Distinction: Couple Makes Light the Focal Point in This View Ridge Remodel

AIA Home of Distinction: Couple Makes Light the Focal Point in This View Ridge Remodel

A View Ridge couple rebuild their hillside home to let the sunshine in

ALL DECKED OUT: Homeowners Tom and Amy Gaffney rebuilt their 1939 home to bring more light in; the deck, which looks over Lake Washington, is one of the couple’s favorite spots to hang out in the summer

Bellingham Beauty Company Puts an Old Spin on New Skin Care

Bellingham Beauty Company Puts an Old Spin on New Skin Care

A local company steers the ‘farm to toilette’ beauty product concept

SKIN SOOTHERS: Render Skincare’s clary sage and bergamot balm

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