article_snippet: In 2006, Ms Macefield took a stand against developers by staying in the house in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood where Ms Macefield had lived in for almost 60 years despite being offered money to leave so new retail and office space could be created.
article_snippet: Both Ms Macefield and her house became a symbol of standing up to corporate giants after developers were forced to awkwardly build around it.
article_snippet: The row with developers came after the Seattle neighborhood of BallardBallard, just across Salmon Bay from Seattle, held out against the forces of gentrification until 2000 when developers came knocking.
article_snippet: Condominiums and shopping malls for tech-industry workers began to spring up where once modest family homes had once stood.
article_snippet: By 2006, Ms Macefield home stood almost alone, Ms Macefield neighbors long gone, as developers prepared to build Ballard Blocks, a retail and office development.
article_snippet: Ms Macefield refused to leave Ms Macefield home of 50 years, and construction began on the development that would end up surrounding Ms Macefield house and garden .
article_snippet: Ms Macefield had lived in her house and garden for almost 60 years, having originally moved there in 1952 to take care of Ms Macefield ailing mother.
article_snippet: As concrete walls began to tower some five floors high above Ms Macefield home, Ms Macefield fame grew and Ms Macefield earned the grudging respect of the construction workers that would pass by every day.
article_snippet: Ironically, Ms Macefield left her house and garden to the supervisor of the very project that had tried to displace Ms Macefield.
article_snippet: As concrete walls began to tower above her home, her fame grew and Ms Macefield earned the grudging respect of the construction workers that would pass by every day .
highlights_snippet: her refused, staying in the home her had spent almost 60 years in, forcing developers to build around her .
  
highlights_snippet: Ms Macefield left her house to one of the construction crew at the neighboring project who had looked after Ms Macefield .
  