Cleaning Up Toxic Sludge with a Little Help from Gentrification

Seattle developers aren't all awful. In some cases, they're fixing our past environmental mistakes.by Nathalie GrahamMontlake businesses Mont's Market and Jay's Cleaners occupy a spot on 24th Avenue East that used to be a Gull gas station. There were steel tanks underground that stored toxic substances. What no one knew until it was too late was that these tanks were leaking."Since the 1990s, there have been several underground storage tank requirements that are aimed at detecting leaks and prev