With 40,000 plants from 30 countries, aquariums,Ī waterfall feature, and restaurant from James Beard-award winning chef That's being touted as the city's next landmark, albeit one January, Amazon opened the Spheres, a triple-domed glass structure Unrecognizable since Amazon's urban campus arrived, eight yearsĪgo, bringing with it upscale apartment buildings, breakout restaurants,Īnd high-end furniture stores like Ligne Roset and Inform Interiors. Less than a mile away is South Lake Union formerly a ghost townįull of parking lots and warehouses, the area has become nearly The project includes the addition ofįloor-to-ceiling glass on both the interior and exterior spaces, and a Which is currently undergoing an extensive renovation by localĪrchitecture firm Olson Kundig. Space Needle (my grandfather was a lead ironworker on the project), Than six-and-a-half million visitors turned out to look at the future Pioneering nature that fueled it would linger for decades to come.īoeing was founded here, and during the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, more The rush lasted only a few years, but the entrepreneurial, The Klondike Gold Rush would stop through to gear up for the brutal Seattle had its first boom in the late 1800s, when prospectors of Spirit of adventure and creativity it was founded on. Most of all, the city is still building itself with the trailblazing Microsoft, both of which are headquartered in the region, industries areīooming, from technology and health care to architecture and the arts. Powered by the expansion of tech behemoths such as Amazon and Starbucks coffee, and grunge music iconography of the '90s stillįuel outside perceptions, but Seattle's legacy of innovation places If there's one thing us locals have developed a skillįor, it's debunking stereotypes. Reaches for one of the many umbrellas stashed in my car, office, orĪpartment. The clouds gather and the rain starts, this third generation Seattleite I am here to attest that this is not true.
There's a saying in Seattle that only tourists and transplantsĬarry umbrellas.
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