Why did Seattle City Council halt a 900-unit SODO housing proposal?

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council quietly killed a proposal to build up to 900 housing units in a part of town that has been impacted significantly by chronic houselessness.

It leaves some key stakeholders, including the stadium authorities representing the Mariners and Seahawks, and union leaders scratching their heads, and has united former foes in the discussion about the future of industrial lands.

Multiple stakeholders had been pushing the city to build a so-dubbed ‘Makers District’ along 1st Avenue South and Occidental, between Edgar Martinez Drive and Massachusetts. It hinged on a rezoning of the land, as part of a city-wide industrial lands rezone, which has been years in the making.

But a late push by the Port of Seattle and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 19 appears to have squashed the idea for now.

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