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There's a nice little piece over at Crosscut this morning about Georgetown's Rainier Cold Storage Stock House (and the demise of), but just like the neighborhood opposition to the building's demolition, it's too little too late. To be fair, the building's owners broke their way through many walls (a much beloved building that defines a neighborhood, an official Seattle Landmark) with the wrecking ball of public safety: it's going to collapse onto Airport Way, they said. Demolish away, they were told. Demolish away they did and not enough people knew or cared beforehand to do much of anything to stop it.

On Saturday, Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News-Tribune reported that local real estate developer Dave Sabey had offered to buy the Sonics from Clay Bennett and make them the centerpiece of a development he's planning south of Boeing Field.

Gary Washburn Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News Tribune reports that real estate developer David Sabey (at right) has offered to buy the Sonics from an increasingly disillusioned Clay Bennett.

They're actually doing it. The Port is getting King County Airport (AKA Boeing Field) in exchange for an Eastside rail corridor and a bag of baseballs. A bunch of Agreements were signed today making it so, with the other interested party being King County. When this deal was first floated to the public in October it was made clear that the rail corridor would be transformed into a recreational trail, something that we found to be kind of neat but also kind of wasteful, although we didn't really shed many tears for the Spirit of Washington dinner train that was going to be displaced in the process. In the press release this time around the recreational possibilities of the corridor are downplayed somewhat, but that's still the intended use. The County promises to do some research into making it a transit pathway, although they insist that such a transit line isn't currently needed.

NASCAR has dispatched a few celebrity drivers to Olympia to wine, dine and convice law makers of the wisdom behind a Kitsap racing oval. The task is daunting--few Washington officials have expressed a lot of interest in the facility, particularly when a part of the deal is bankrolled by the taxpayer, and a recent Elway poll shows that only 16% of the taxpayer is prepared to put up that money. We have to believe that more than 16% of Washington would appreciate a little car racing in the state, but, well, it's probably the same deal as the Sonics: Seattle doesn't hate basketball, it just doesn't want to be taken advantage of by it. NASCAR is NASCAR, though, and those ads you see plastered all over their cars buy a whole lot of access. They hear "no" once and they ask again. Hear it a second time and they send in Richard Petty to trade a little paint with state senators. This is the bill they're trying to get us to agree to.

Barter, trade; the original commerce. You give us this and we give you that which inside we hope is of lesser value somehow, because that's the way we've been trained since we were kids. Our steelie for your catseye, Grandpa. Or how about our Short Fuse for your Storm Shadow? Our royal sampler of never-will-bes and never-weres for your Canseco rookie? No tradebacks, bitch, even though as soon as the deal is done one of us is going to start bragging. You know you don't want Neighborhood Justice to enforce this contract.

About three hours before the quiz started at the Old Pequliar last night, we realized we'd written a really difficult slate of questions. Congrats to the winners, who earned their cash. We'll let you know next time we're hosting -- Charley, the regular quiz guy, should be fully operational again by next week.

-When you hear that an experimental plane has crashed you expect to hear that some kind of ninja plane from Boeing Field ditched into the ocean. This time it's a DIY job, though. We're guessing the flight itinerary didn't read "Garage, Chehalis Airport, trees, Harborview ICU," but that's unfortunately what happened.

King County Executive Ron Sims, the only local politician willing to give the smallest amount of daylight to Southwest Airlines' proposal to build a new terminal at Boeing Field, caved yesterday.

Apparently some residents of Seattle's South Park neighborhood feel that having a Superfund site in their backyard is enough, the rotten shirkers. They say it should disqualify them from helping cutting a few minutes off greater Seattle's freedom to jet about the country. Seattlest admits the discussion of Southwest's proposed move to Boeing Field hasn't exactly centered on environmental impacts so far. (But editorial boards tend to have their seats in lofty crags.)

A friend has recently been trying to convice us to take a tourist flight on one of those Lake Union float planes. No, he hasn't done it, but he's encouraging us, apparently in the spirit of the canary in the mineshaft. "Come on, do it. It's only $50," he says, while unbeknownst to him it's actually $80. For fifty, maybe. For eighty, maybe not.

If Southwest Airlines builds a passenger terminal at Boeing Field, as they proposed yesterday, your life will be better.