Martin Tobias: parking lot slayer
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
Some people have no sense of irony or humor. I hope you do, the Stranger does: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=648118
Martin Tobias, the developer seeking to destroy Madrona’s beloved parking lot, dismisses the neighborhood concerns. “An asphalt parking lot is not worth saving,” argues Tobias. “There’s nothing to save. Nothing.”
It’s thanks to attitudes like Tobias’s that photographs are all that remain of most of Ballard’s beloved parking lots and Belltown’s historic parking lots; they may be all that remain of the parking lots in your neighborhood one day, too.