Is Old Seattle dead?
The first live taping of the day featured Brothers, whose media project, Vanishing Seattle, documents and celebrates the legacy of disappearing local businesses. Brothers started the project in 2016 after she moved back to Seattle from New York and noticed small local businesses seemed to be disappearing at an alarming rate.
“When these places go away, you can really feel a need to grieve and to mourn,” Brothers told Northwest Reports.
Brothers said giving people hope — and pushing back on narratives about the old Seattle dying — is also an important part of the project.
“I want people to still feel like they have hope
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