The Changing Lives Of Yesler Terrace

Charles Henry Parrish is an artist. For him art is work, it's therapy, it's vocation. He has survived several upheavals in his life, and he’s about to…

If Seattle Housing Authority proposals go as planned, 15 years from now Seattle's oldest and best known public housing development will be gone. Yesler Terrace will have been demolished and replaced with a dense, new, mixed-income neighborhood. It's a plan every bit as radical and controversial as the plan that built Yesler Terrace in the first place.In this four-part series, Dominic Black explores the history, present and future of one of Seattle's most distinctive communities: Yesler Terrace.

Kristin O'Donnell loves meetings. "Absolutely my hobby. I do enjoy meetings," she tells me over a cup of tea in the Panama Hotel. Meetings, she says,…

Rumor has it that somewhere in a forgotten corner of a basement somewhere in Seattle there's a decaying 3-D model of a brand new Yesler Terrace. It was…

Yesler Terrace is Seattle's oldest public housing project. It was revolutionary when it was completed in 1940. In the near future, though, it will be…