One of the most persistent Olympia-area history myths is that Interstate 5 destroyed Tumwater’s downtown. I’ve written about this before, so what follows you can find in different forms in other places, but I tidied it up for this post. Daisy Ackley in her “Wagon Wheel’s A’Rolling” history tells what has become common knowledge in…
Month: July 2021
The scale of out of town real estate investment in Thurston County is small
A candidate for Olympia City Council recently released a list of ideas to prevent out-of-towners and corporations from buying homes in Olympia. The end would be to make housing was more affordable by making it harder for people who don’t live here to bid up houses. This is an interesting line of thinking, but first…