Hi it's Nathan in Gabrielle's class and this is an excerpt from my recent paper about the ID. Go ahead take a gander. Enjoy:)


Jackson Street Regrade

Seattle is a beautiful city with rolling hills and plenty to do. The city has made its way into the nation by becoming a major stop for many dreamers on their way to mine gold in the Klondike. Since then it has become a key city for coffee, music, Boeing, University of Washington, and the World Fair. A strange thought though is this may have been impossible without the regrades of Seattle.
The Denny Hill Regrade was the largest project in reconstructing Seattle’s landscape. It involved removing Denny Hill, “one of the proverbial seven hills of Seattle” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Regrade). A major question posed by the city however was, where were they going to put all the dirt? Eugene McAllaster, the Denny Regrade Consulting Engineer, had the answer. They were to put the dirt into Elliot Bay, creating a larger city and relieving the city from having to grow north. And then they had another thought the tide flats could be also filled in giving them more useful land.
There was one problem though