The U District is getting a makeover. Will it displace homeless youth?
Crosscut
Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series on how U District development will affect one of the neighborhood's longstanding groups: street youth. Part 1 & Part 2
If all goes according to plan, Sound Transit will open its new, North Link light rail underground station in the University District in 2021. It will be one busy station, planners say, whisking passengers from the U District to Westlake in eight minutes and to Northgate in five, some 12,000 boardings per day. Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray calls the station a "catalyst" for U District change. Indeed, the train is expected to open the floodgates of growth in one of Seattle's most crucial, vibrant and complex urban neighborhoods.