seattle

 

  • [66] This success brought an influx of new residents with a population increase within city limits of almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000,[67] and saw Seattle’s real estate
    become some of the most expensive in the country.

  • [61] The company’s credit union for employees, BECU, remains based in the Seattle area and has been open to all residents of Washington since 2002.

  • [56] Post-war years: aircraft and software Building the Seattle Center Monorail, 1961 (looking north up Fifth Avenue from Virginia Street) War work again brought local prosperity
    during World War II, this time centered on Boeing aircraft.

  • Seattle had achieved sufficient economic success that when the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 destroyed the central business district, a far grander city-center rapidly emerged
    in its place.

  • [22] After a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square,[22] naming this
    new settlement Duwamps.

  • [85] The break in the ridge between First Hill and Beacon Hill is man-made, the result of two of the many regrading projects that reshaped the topography of the city center.

  • [42] The boom lasted well into the early part of the 20th century, and funded many new Seattle companies and products.

  • Many people left the area to look for work elsewhere, and two local real estate agents put up a billboard reading “Will the last person leaving Seattle – Turn out the lights.

  • In a short time, Seattle became a major transportation center.

  • [116][122] Additionally, the Seattle area had the highest percentage of self-identified mixed-race people of any large metropolitan area in the United States, according to
    the 2000 United States Census Bureau.

  • [44] A shipbuilding boom in the early part of the 20th century became massive during World War I, making Seattle somewhat of a company town.

  • [103] However, because it often has merely a light drizzle falling from the sky for many days, Seattle actually receives significantly less rainfall (or other precipitation)
    overall than many other U.S. cities like New York City, Miami, or Houston.

  • However, Seattle faced massive unemployment, loss of lumber and construction industries as Los Angeles prevailed as the bigger West Coast city.

  • [76] Another boom began as the city emerged from the Great Recession which commenced when Amazon.com moved its headquarters from North Beacon Hill to South Lake Union.

  • [128] The Seattle City Council later voted to relax height limits on buildings in the greater part of Downtown, partly with the aim to increase residential density in the
    city center.

  • [14] Logging was Seattle’s first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike
    Gold Rush.

  • [23] Charles Terry and John Low remained at the original landing location, reestablished their old land claim and called it “New York”, but renamed “New York Alki” in April
    1853, from a Chinook word meaning, roughly, “by and by” or “someday”.

  • [70][71] Seattle in this period attracted widespread attention as home to these many companies, but also by hosting the 1990 Goodwill Games[72] and the APEC leaders conference
    in 1993,[73] as well as through the worldwide popularity of grunge, a sound that had developed in Seattle’s independent music scene.

  • [128] However, former mayor Greg Nickels supported plans that would increase the population by 60%, or 350,000 people, by 2040 and worked on ways to accommodate this growth
    while keeping Seattle’s single-family housing zoning laws.

  • The Seattle metropolitan area’s population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States.

  • Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing.

  • [24][25] For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, but in time Alki was abandoned and its residents moved across the bay to join the rest of
    the settlers.

  • [37] The 2010 census showed that Seattle was one of the whitest big cities in the country, although its proportion of white residents has been gradually declining.

  • [11] The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers.

  • [34] The first such boom, covering the early years of the city, rode on the lumber industry.

  • Between 1918 and 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District to the Central District.

  • The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city’s population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000.

  • [149] In 2005, Forbes ranked Seattle as the most expensive American city for buying a house based on the local income levels.

  • This initiated a historic construction boom which resulted in the completion of almost 10,000 apartments in Seattle in 2017, which is more than any previous year and nearly
    twice as many as were built in 2016.

  • [50][51] Pioneer Square in 1917 featuring the Pioneer Building, the Smith Tower, and the Seattle Hotel The famous Hooverville arose during the Depression, leading to Seattle’s
    growing homeless population.

  • [126] In September 2005, King County adopted a “Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness”, one of the near-term results of which is a shift of funding from homeless shelter beds
    to permanent housing.

  • Seattle had building contracts that rivaled New York City and Chicago, but lost to LA as well.

  • [138][139] Although it was affected by the Great Recession, Seattle has retained a comparatively strong economy, and is noted for start-up businesses, especially in green
    building and clean technologies.

  • In 2006, after growing by 4,000 citizens per year for the previous 16 years, regional planners expected the population of Seattle to grow by 200,000 people by 2040.

  • The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is
    a Seattleite by birth.

  • [116][117] According to the 2006–2008 American Community Survey, approximately 78.9% of residents over the age of five spoke only English at home.

  • [19] In 1851, a large party of American pioneers led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River; they formally claimed it on September 14,
    1851.

  • With many more “rain days” than other major American cities, Seattle has a well-earned reputation for frequent rain.

  • [64] Beginning with Microsoft’s 1979 move from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to nearby Bellevue, Washington,[65] Seattle and its suburbs became home to a number of technology companies
    including Amazon, F5 Networks, RealNetworks, Nintendo of America, and T-Mobile.

  • [120] The Seattle-Tacoma area is also home to one of the largest Cambodian communities in the United States, numbering about 19,000 Cambodian Americans,[121] and one of the
    largest Samoan communities in the mainland U.S., with over 15,000 people having Samoan ancestry.

  • The Seattle area is also home to a large Vietnamese population of more than 55,000 residents,[119] as well as over 30,000 Somali immigrants.

  • [12] By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people (subsequently called the Duwamish tribe) occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott
    Bay.

  • As schools across Washington lost funding and attendance, the UW actually prospered during the time period.

  • On February 28, 2001, the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake did significant architectural damage, especially in the Pioneer Square area (built on reclaimed land, as are the
    Industrial District and part of the city center), and caused one fatality.

  • [43] The Gold Rush era culminated in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, which is largely responsible for the layout of today’s University of Washington campus.

  • The Seattle area is the cloudiest region of the United States, due in part to frequent storms and lows moving in from the adjacent Pacific Ocean.

  • Seattle’s eastern farm land faded due to Oregon’s and the Midwest’s, forcing people into town.

  • This was the second-highest proportion of any major U.S. city, behind San Francisco.

  • [35] Like much of the American West, Seattle saw numerous conflicts between labor and management, as well as ethnic tensions that culminated in the anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886.

  • [80] Geography Topography See also: Bodies of water of Seattle, List of neighborhoods in Seattle, and Regrading in Seattle Satellite photo of Seattle Seattle is located between
    the saltwater Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) to the west and Lake Washington to the east.

  • [155] The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, which perform at McCaw Hall (opened in 2003 on the site of the former Seattle Opera House at Seattle Center), are comparably
    distinguished,[156][157] with the Opera being particularly known for its performances of the works of Richard Wagner[158][159] and the PNB School (founded in 1974) ranking as one of the top three ballet training institutions in the United
    States.

  • [46] The Great Depression in Seattle affected many minority groups, one being the Asian Pacific Americans; they were subject to racism, loss of property, and failed claims
    of unemployment due to citizenship status.

  • [150] Owing largely to the rapidly increasing cost of living, Seattle and Washington State have some of the highest minimum wages in the country, at $15 per hour for smaller
    businesses and $16 for the city’s largest employers.

  • [163] Seattle has “around 100” theatrical production companies[164] and over two dozen live theatre venues, many of them associated with fringe theatre;[165][166] Seattle
    is probably second only to New York for number of equity theaters[167] (28 Seattle theater companies have some sort of Actors’ Equity contract).

  • Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, European American, Asian American and African American people, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks
    sixth in the United States by population.

  • [125] It is estimated that King County has 8,000 homeless people on any given night, and many of those live in Seattle.

  • A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2021.

  • The later dereliction of the area may be a possible origin for the term which later entered the wider American lexicon as Skid Row.

  • [citation needed] Due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Seattle is in a major earthquake zone.

  • With a 2020 population of 737,015,[2] it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

  • [147][c] The company also has large aircraft manufacturing plants in Everett and Renton; it remains the largest private employer in the Seattle metropolitan area.

  • [90] Although the Seattle Fault passes just south of the city center, neither it[91] nor the Cascadia subduction zone has caused an earthquake since the city’s founding.

  • [142] Other major companies headquartered in the area include Nintendo of America in Redmond, T-Mobile US in Bellevue, and Providence Health & Services (the state’s largest
    health care system and fifth largest employer) in Renton.

  • [33] Timber town Seattle has a history of boom-and-bust cycles, like many other cities near areas of extensive natural and mineral resources.

  • [16][17][18] The first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition for the Royal Navy to chart the Pacific Northwest.

  • [83] Like Rome, the city is said to lie on seven hills;[84] the lists vary but typically include Capitol Hill, First Hill, West Seattle, Beacon Hill, Queen Anne, Magnolia,
    and the former Denny Hill.

  • [127] In recent years, the city has experienced steady population growth, and has been faced with the issue of accommodating more residents.

  • [77][78] Beginning in 2010, and for the next five years, Seattle gained an average of 14,511 residents per year, with the growth strongly skewed toward the center of the city,[79]
    as unemployment dropped from roughly 9 percent to 3.6 percent.

  • [140] In February 2010, the city government committed Seattle to become North America’s first “climate neutral” city, with a goal of reaching zero net per capita greenhouse
    gas emissions by 2030.

 

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