Talk:University Village, Seattle

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"U Village expansion on track for January start", Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) - December 7, 2001. by Betta Ferrendelli, Associate Editor. [--GoDot 18:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)] http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/current/sct9812/07.htm

"University Village: a cum laude rehab" By Edmund Mander. Shopping Centers Today, December 1, 1998. [--GoDot 18:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)] http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2001/12/10/focus8.html

[--Lukobe 17:15, 17 September 2004 (UTC)]

Summary: + txt, cit, so cl, rephrased; see Talk. Explication: See Talk:Seattle, Citing sources.

Suggestion: Rename University Village, Seattle to University Village Mall, making consistent with such as nearby Northgate Mall , redirecting University Village, Seattle.

noted where needed. See also Talk:Seattle, Style.

"[B]uilt in 1956 across NE 45th Street from the Montlake Landfill (home of the fictional clown J. P. Patches), taking out what remained of the Union Bay wetland" [emphasis added] removes some the distinctive charm from the greater University District in that J. P. was live on locally-produced television (1958-81) while the dump was still open (1926-66 . J. P. Patches is accurately described in the article. J. P. Patches is also widely known throughout Western Washington and lower British Columbia. Consequently, the setting and the personality were vivid to parents and children throughout the broadcast area of the day. J. P. is definitely real, the non-existence of Chris Wedes would be greatly exagerrated (Sam Clemens). He is no more fictional than Siegfried and Roy] (Siegfried & Roy : )

More accurately, the geographic feature is historically known as the Union Bay Marsh, with wetland being a recent designation. The name is now Union Bay Natural Area (UBNA), or "the fill". ([Dolan & True])

"In the late 1990s, a proposal was floated to "daylight" Ravenna Creek from Ravenna Park to Lake Washington, crossing the University Village grounds, but the project was successfully blocked by the mall owners" is less accurate in that the proposal was a grass-roots initiative, not top-down from corporate or government leaders. The proposal is an integrated, long-term campaign that included Cowen Park, which has since seen successful implementation that was used to further the Ravenna and University Village segments (,, and ).

Restoration surroundng and upstream of U. Village has been significant in development of neighborhood character, and influencing amelioration in the shopping center. Cf. Ravenna and Thornton Creek.

--GoDot 01:02, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion: Rename to match style of such as Northgate Mall (Seattle), and redirect. Perhaps University Village Shopping Center (Seattle). --GoDot 18:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The article was originally named this way because it was meant to deal with both mall and neighborhood. Should there be two separate articles? --Lukobe 23:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Segment copied to Talk:Seattle, Neighborhood articles issues, per suggestion by Lukobe at Talk:Ravenna. Please see Talk:Seattle #U Village, continued there. --GoDot 07:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Summary: + ft anchors & cit, + cite web, cl refs having author, order of heads at end; see Talk. Explication: Add short full text re. anchors, with citations; add cite web template, cleanup references having author, order of headings at end per WP:MoS (Manual of Style) at 7 Standard appendices. --GoDot 07:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the ad, U Village
This reads like it came straight out of a marketing brochure. It needs a cleanup and a section on the environmental impact controversies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.86.196 (talk) 02:46, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Original developers
Continental Inc was not the original developer of University Village. My Grandfather E.C. Swanson was. I actually still have my bank book from Seattle Trust, bank account number one, dated February 8, 1955, given on U Village grand opening. Funfactsandfigures (talk) 23:02, 3 September 2021 (UTC)