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[[File:Fort-Lawton-aerial.jpg|thumb|right|600px|area of proposed new low-income & senior housing at former Fort Lawton site, Seattle]] <span style="color:#dd0000;">[note: this page has an embedded Google Doc. If you see error message, "An embedded page at docs.google.com says:" hit CANCEL ]</span>
[[File:Fort-Lawton-aerial.jpg|thumb|right|600px|area of proposed new low-income & senior housing at former Fort Lawton site, Seattle]] '''Fort Lawton''' is former [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army United States Army] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_base post] located in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia,_Seattle,_Washington Magnolia] neighborhood of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle Seattle], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state) Washington] overlooking Puget Sound. While Fort Lawton was a quiet outpost prior to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II], it became the second largest port of embarkation of soldiers and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiel materiel] to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War Pacific Theater] during the war. In 1973 a large majority of the property, 534 acres of Fort Lawton, was given to the city of Seattle and dedicated as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Park_(Seattle) Discovery Park].▼
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The fort was included in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure,_2005 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list]. Fort Lawton officially closed on September 14, 2011. This 34-acre area, now vacant, is proposed for a City-developed low-income and senior housing project.<br/>
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== Support Letter Mailer from SeaTech4Housing<br/> ==
<div style="clear: both">@seatech4housing<br/> "If you weren’t able to come out tonight to demand bolder action on affordable housing, you can send a written comment with just a few clicks:<br/> [https://www.seattletech4housing.org/ft-lawton-letter/ https://www.seattletech4housing.org/ft-lawton-letter/]."<br/> </div>
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