Re: “A ‘both/and’ solution for safety at Gas Works Park” (Nov. 24, Opinion) and “Seattle must act now to prevent more tragedies at Gas Works Park” (Nov. 10, Opinion):
Make the ruins of the coal-gas buildings at Gasoline Works Park safer? Are you kidding? This dilapidated, rusting, graffiti-tagged industrial junk is ugly. We’ve had 50 years to understand its historic presence. All of the whereas, it’s continued to deteriorate additional, turning into so hazardous it needed to be fenced off, and the fence is evidently an ineffective barrier.
Sufficient is sufficient. Panorama architects the Olmsted brothers have been proper: This promontory of land ought to have been a park within the first place, not a dirty manufacturing unit. Nucor Metal, a barge journey away, can soften down its appreciable tonnage of metal into rebar.
Now could be the time to demolish these unhappy stays earlier than the town launches into restoring the park’s badly polluted shoreline in 2027.
Sean Coney, Normandy Park
