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Old Posted Jul 21, 2012, 6:58 PM
alki alki is offline
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Originally Posted by mhays View Post
Because in Seattle they can have much less parking...commonly 0.6 or 0.8 spaces per unit. That makes smaller properties viable (14,000 sf sometimes), and greatly reduces construction costs.

Also, people will pay more of a premium to live within walking distance of the CBD in Seattle than in LA. Here, greater Downtown is the center of nearly everything, vs. the dispersed model of LA. Plus there's more of a walking and transit culture.
I don't know how long you've been posting here but if you are new, welcome to this forum. You'll find it more introspective and interactive than the Seattle forum with a good moderator who doesn't jump all over me if I disagree with him.