Long-running fight over Sodo housing takes a new turn
The long saga of whether Seattle can or should allow housing to be built near the stadiums in Sodo is ... still going.
This wrestling match has to do with a couple blocks to the south of T-Mobile Park.
The debate was restarted in 2025, when the Seattle City Council passed a bill from then-Seattle City Council president Sarah Nelson. It allowed residential use in the small strip of land next to the baseball stadium.
The idea quickly drew backlash from port workers and truckers who operate in Sodo and Nelson’s bill eventually suffered a double-whammy of being declared illegal by a state…
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