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Nickels vs. Sisley: Fight!

Posted By Peter On March 30, 2007 @ 3:43 am In characters, real estate | Comments Disabled

He may have struck out on the Viaduct, but Mayor Nickels is taking a swing at one more source of urban decay: Hugh and/or Drake Sisley, at least in their role as North Seattle’s Lords of the Slumlords ^[1].

The Seattle Times argues it’s mainly the brothers’ properties along NE 65th Street ^[2], just east of Whole Foods, which are the target of yesterday’s proposal by Nickels to increase fines for trash and debris on properties ten-fold. (This was apparently lost on the P-I’s commenters, of whom only one mentioned the Roosevelt connection ^[3] in the discussion section attached to that newspaper’s article ^[4].)

You might remember the Sisley brothers from the arrest of their white-supremecist gun-runner enforcer ^[5] in 2005. Hugh claims he’s holding on to the rundown bungalows along 65th in order to build an eventual ‘urban village ^[6],’ something the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association ^[7] doubts.

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[1] North Seattle’s Lords of the Slumlords: http://www.seattleweekly.com/1999-04-07/news/something-s-rotten-in-roosevelt.php

[2] Seattle Times argues it’s mainly the brothers’ properties along NE 65th Street: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003642671_nuisance30m.html

[3] only one mentioned the Roosevelt connection: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/soundoff/comment.asp?articleid=309522#152777

[4] that newspaper’s article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/309522_unsafe30.html

[5] white-supremecist gun-runner enforcer: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=weapons17m&date=20050217&query=sisley

[6] urban village: http://www.hughsisley.com/about.html

[7] Roosevelt Neighborhood Association: http://rooseveltneighborhoodseattle.org

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