Urban Explorer: Ballard

If you spend enough time in Seattle, you will undoubtedly hear natives talk longingly of the Ballard of old. Few of them were here when the last mill closed, or immigrants landed on these teeming shores from the east and the west, but all they know is that the neighborhood has changed. In their eyes, it is ground zero for gentrification, housing inequality, rapid change, expansion skyward, and a city that continues to tie itself in knots…