hings right.  Here was their big chance to finally build a city that would be functional, clean, and attractive.  Or at least not flooded with sewage every high tide.
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A plan was quickly conceived and approved.  The fathers got together with the <a href="http://www.seattle.com/capitalistpigs/">merchants</a> and explained it.  "Here's what we'll do," they said, "we'll raise the ground level of the financial district well above the high-tide line.  We're going to cart all the dirt we need down from th