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All images by Hartson Photography

There are platitudes and boring cliches. But the charrette was amazing. So much energy, so many ideas, so many opportunities to fulfill the potential of a brighter future for Seattle. We invite your reflections and hopes in the comments below.

For us to see developers and community members talking and agreeing and moving toward a better vision of the city as a whole is just plain refreshing. As Patrick Condon, our keynote speaker said, charrettes allow people to "solve a complex problem in a ridiculously short amount of time." And to hear community members advocating for development and developers noting that, yes, that parcel does need to be a park, is incredible. For all of our entrenched oppositions, to break those barriers down and actually having a conversation it wonderful.

Then there were the designs. Proof again that all of us together are smarter than each of us alone. From a new city rising on the banks of the Duwamish where Boeing Field rests now (vertical take-offs in the future, you see) to a widened and beautified Rainier Ave. Tremendous.

To see it all, it will be in Gould Hall Court until Wednesday at 5:30pm. If you would like to see photographs of the charrette, take a look at www.HartsonPhoto.com