Article: Most oppose plan to reinvent Mercer Street in Seattle, poll finds.

Article: RICE PROPOSES SMALLER, CHEAPER COMMONS PLAN FOR TWO-PART PARK ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... downtown and South Lake Union. Instead of a ... south shore of Lake Union, the mayor ... the notorious Mercer Street ``Mess'' untouched ... south shore of Lake Union. -- A smaller ... the land around Mercer Street in anticipation ...

Article: COUNCILMEMBER LICATA PROPOSES HOLDING MERCER STREET ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 9, 2008 ;     652 words ... ... propose holding the Mercer Street Project at Monday ... two-way boulevard on Mercer Street and narrow Valley Street ... direction in the South Lake Union neighborhood, is in ... better through South Lake Union. Meanwhile numerous ...

Article: NEW COMMONS PLAN HAS PLAZAS FOUNTAINS WOULD MASK MERCER ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... that would help link Lake Union to the proposed 40 ... side of the infamous Mercer Street Mess. The 420-foot ... took through the south Lake Union neighborhood. The great ... less than rebuilding Mercer Street and capping it with ...

Article: Seattle Mercer street widening plan gets city ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the idea of turning Mercer Street into a two-way ... include properties along Mercer Street that it bought from ... that land to widen Mercer Street from four to six lanes ... of making the South Lake Union area more attractive ...

Article: Mercer Street project moves forward - with ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 27, 2009 ;     533 words ... ... forward with the controversial Mercer Street project. The ordinance authorizes ... million project would convert Mercer Street to two-way traffic for six ... Vulcan properties in the South Lake Union neighborhood. They say the money ...

Article: United States: $30 million to be released for Mercer ...
TendersInfo;  November 19, 2008 ;     653 words ... ... Council today tried to speed up the Mercer Street project by agreeing to release ... Council today tried to speed up the Mercer Street project by agreeing to release ... offices, condos and a refurbished Lake Union Park. Nearby Valley Street would ...

Article: MERCER STREET PROJECT NOT TOP PRIORITY.(Editorial)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Under that plan, Mercer would be widened and turned into a two-way tree-lined boulevard where it runs through the South Lake Union neighborhood. Valley Street, now absorbing much of the westbound traffic from Interstate 5, would be narrowed, with its ...