Alaska Life

Who says Anchorage isn't developer friendly?

This new building on Fireweed Lane reminds us that Anchorage isn't Portland or Seattle or any of those other bastions of progressiveness.

Nope.

Here in unruly Los Anchorage, developers are free to embark on that fine tradition set by those developers who staked their claim on Alaska's booms and busts. Indeed, Pete Zamarillo would be proud of this pagoda-like structure hovering over his old Midtown strip malls.

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Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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