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This includes more than $100 million in direct state and local tax revenue and anticipates 20,762 full- and part-time jobs will be supported. The Downtown Seattle Association believes the ...
The Downtown Seattle Association publishes monthly data regarding the downtown’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Data for the month of December has not been published yet.
Downtown Seattle is the largest employment center in the Puget Sound region, with an estimated employee population of 243,995 in 2013, accounting for half of the city's jobs and 21 percent of King County jobs. [12] Several Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Downtown Seattle include Amazon, Nordstrom, and Expeditors International. [13]
Two major downtown projects, the IDX Tower (2003) and WaMu Center (2006), were completed during the early 2000s and were the first office buildings to be built since the Key Tower in 1990. [34] By the mid-2000s, office vacancies in Downtown Seattle improved to below 10 percent, but office developers were hesitant to break ground on new projects.
Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department. ISBN 0-9601928-1-6. "Seattle Interactive Map". Seattle Neighborhoods. HistoryLink.org. Archived from the original on February 24, 2006 "Rainier Valley, map". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk. June 13–17, 2002
The Downtown Activation Team is a multi-departmental team modeled after Seattle’s Unified Care Team. ... Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has issued an executive order focusing on public safety amid ...
Freeway Park, officially known as Jim Ellis Freeway Park, is an urban park in Seattle, Washington, United States, connecting the city's downtown to the Seattle Convention Center and First Hill. The park sits atop a section of Interstate 5 and a large city-owned parking lot; 8th Avenue also bridges over the park.
During the early 1960s, the neighborhood was a hotbed for the Seattle civil rights movement. In 1963, civil rights protesters took to the streets and protested against racial discrimination. Later, they participated in a sit-in in downtown Seattle. At the same time, the Black Panther Party used the neighborhood as a staging area for their movement.