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Posted: 10/9/2007 7:32:28 AM EDT

I get offered the job up there, will there be anyone looking for roomates in the near future? I would be looking for someplace in the area of Boeing Field...

Thanks

Posted: 10/9/2007 7:40:54 AM EDT

[#1]

They are digging a new tunnel, near Boeing Field, for Light Rail. You could always....

Posted: 10/9/2007 7:53:34 AM EDT

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Quoted:
They are digging a new tunnel, near Boeing Field, for Light Rail. You could always....

Live in one of these???

Posted: 10/9/2007 8:14:45 AM EDT

[#3]

I'm sure there are some nice flophouses in the immediate vicinity.

Posted: 10/9/2007 8:34:01 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I'm sure there are some nice flophouses in the immediate vicinity.

In Georgetown? Surely you jest!

Posted: 10/9/2007 8:36:17 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'm sure there are some nice flophouses in the immediate vicinity.

In Georgetown? Surely you jest!

HEY they have that new sex offender half way house down there now! It's a thought!

Posted: 10/9/2007 8:44:47 AM EDT

[#6]

So what you're saying is that you have room at your place?

Posted: 10/9/2007 8:48:13 AM EDT

[#7]

Sex in public restroom upsets Georgetown
Residents want park made safe for their children

By KERY MURAKAMI
P-I REPORTER

Andy Bookwalter complained for years about people having sex in the restrooms at the Georgetown Playfield near his house.

But the situation peaked in September, when somebody actually started advertising on Craigslist.

"Looking for fun in Georgetown," the post was titled. "Looking for someplace fun to get off with other men? Georgetown park bathroom between 11:00 a.m. and 1 p.m. is a great place. Hit me up if you would like to pick a time."

Another personal ad on a gay cruising Web site recommends the brick men's room at the playfield, which is at the end of Bookwalter's tree-lined street.

It's not the kind of thing he wants his two young sons -- 3 and 1 -- to walk in on someday.

Complaints about illicit activities in public restrooms aren't new. Downtown businesses say prostitutes and drug users looking for a little privacy sometimes use Seattle's automated restrooms.

But rarely is one actually advertised as a good meeting place for sex.

The brick building was locked up for the winter a couple of weeks ago, but when it is open, there can be a steady stream of men going in.

"You see a couple of guys walk up. One will go in, and then after a few seconds, the other will go in," Bookwalter, 39, said one day last week.

The ball fields, which are part of a $1.8 million renovation, will get artificial turf and new lighting.

Seattle Parks and Recreation planned a public meeting for this week to discuss the new lights.

It's ironic, said Bookwalter, who works at a furniture maker, that although there will be a new playfield, its restrooms won't be renovated.

He said he has called the park department over the past seven years to report the problem, only to be told to call police. The police, though, have higher priorities, so not much has been done, Bookwalter said.

But the park department has taken some temporary steps.

The city put in portable toilets before the restrooms were locked up. Bookwalter looked at the two portable toilets a few feet from the restrooms and just shook his head.

Park spokeswoman Dewey Potter said the solution is temporary. The department is working with police to deal with the problem once the renovation is finished in November.

She said Parks and Recreation also contacted Craigslist and had the ad removed.

Durin Gleaves, who lives on South Homer Street, near the park, said he hasn't walked in on sexual encounters. But he has heard from others who have, and he has seen "men loitering around these bathrooms, obviously waiting for someone."

In addition, he said, there has been "a significant amount of other unsavory people. I've seen open drug use in parked cars, abandoned vehicles that have become homes and a lot of dumping of garbage, appliances and other refuse. While there are several homeless that live in the park, this activity does not seem related to them."

Having a playfield where families can go is important now, Bookwalter said.

The neighborhood has changed in the past decade, drawing people because it was one of the last places where homes still were affordable.

When Bookwalter and his wife moved in eight years ago, there were only two or three families with children within two blocks of the park. Now there are six families with nine children.

"When we got here, couples would move away when they were going to have a child because no one wanted to raise their child here," he said. "Now people are staying."

Posted: 10/9/2007 8:49:07 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Live in one of these???

The color is perfect. Somebody needs to photochop ARFCOM on that.

Posted: 10/9/2007 9:08:21 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
So what you're saying is that you have room at your place?

No room but I don't live in Georgetown anyway.

Posted: 10/9/2007 9:18:28 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

No room but I don't live in Georgetown anyway.

Aren't you in Georgetown right now?

Posted: 10/9/2007 9:53:29 AM EDT

[#11]

Bah..

Posted: 10/9/2007 11:29:15 AM EDT

[#12]

humbug

Posted: 10/9/2007 11:42:23 AM EDT

[#13]

Silly Oregonians.

Posted: 10/9/2007 12:02:36 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Silly Oregonians.

at least you all know I wont be bitchin about the weather...

Posted: 10/9/2007 12:37:46 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I can't believe you guys have to pump your own gas up here!

You'll find something.

Posted: 10/9/2007 12:40:24 PM EDT

[#16]

funny fucker arent ya

Posted: 10/9/2007 2:19:53 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:

No room but I don't live in Georgetown anyway.

Aren't you in Georgetown right now?

Work in SODO.

Posted: 10/9/2007 2:22:48 PM EDT

[#18]

Well, if you WA folk were to steal an OR member, I could have picked a number of others to send up that direction.........

Posted: 10/9/2007 3:41:54 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Silly Oregonians.

You rang?

Quoted:
Well, if you WA folk were to steal an OR member, I could have picked a number of others to send up that direction.........

Posted: 10/9/2007 3:44:40 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Well, if you WA folk were to steal an OR member, I could have picked a number of others to send up that direction.........

Send all you like, most I have met are pretty nice. Up here we can teach them to pump gas as a bonus!

Posted: 10/9/2007 4:00:31 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
You rang?

Hypocrite

Posted: 10/9/2007 4:08:29 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
You rang?

Hypocrite

I might be silly but I ain't dumb!

Posted: 10/9/2007 4:37:25 PM EDT

[#23]

Hmmm I am on the waiting for "orientation" right now...

Good luck finding a place... just stay off EAST casino rd.

Posted: 10/9/2007 9:32:25 PM EDT

[#24]

you could always find a room at western state.

Posted: 10/9/2007 10:02:11 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
you could always find a room at western state.

Western state hotel is a nice place, I have worked there. There is also a place in Buckely but I cat recall the name.

Posted: 10/9/2007 10:20:20 PM EDT

[#26]

I think we'd all agree that we'd take Oregonians over Texicans any day of the week

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