99% Invisible-130- Holdout by Roman Mars published on 2014-09-02T10:09:40Z Around 2005, a Seattle neighborhood called Ballard started to see unprecedented growth. Condominiums and apartment buildings were sprouting up all over the community which had once been mostly single family homes and small businesses. Around this time, developers offered a woman named Edith Macefield $750,000 dollars for her small house, which was appraised at around $120,000. They wanted to build a shopping mall on the block where Macefield had lived for the last 50 years. Macefield turned down the money. Developers went forward with the shopping mall anyway. The mall enveloped her house on three sides. Genre public radio Comment by LĂșcia Lamb Great history! Thank you! 2020-09-20T11:28:15Z Comment by user802794619 they love it now with its trader joes. not so much when us seattlites thought it was gonna be a taeget 2016-04-09T16:35:54Z Comment by Artdigiland yepa 2014-10-03T12:36:58Z Comment by Artdigiland yepa 2014-10-03T12:36:18Z Comment by Alvaro What an amazing story, thank you for presenting it so beautifully! 2014-09-07T14:37:50Z