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Edith Masfield - The Most Sturdy and Static Holdout Ever

Edith masfield lived in a seattle neighbourhood called ballard. Ballard became so iconic of this type of superfast, high density development that when it happens in other neighborhoods, we call it the ballardization of my neighborhood. A developer wanted to build a shopping center that would take up the entire block where edith masfield had lived for the last 50 years. We started hearing some pushback from old time residents in the neighborhood who felt that the neighborhood was changing too quickly. Edith masfield's house was in a more industrial section of ballard and her block was mostly empty, besides her tiny house.

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