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Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse. The apparently smaller white building in the right foreground is the 38 story Smith Tower which when it was completed in 1914 was the tallest building west of Chicago.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse. This view f the skyline, with one of the worlds largest container ship the 1310 foot long Benjamin Franklin, in the foreground, was shot from the top of one of Seattle many container cargo terminal cranes. The Port of Seattle /Tacoma ranks as the fifth largest port in the United States

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse. From Queen Anne Hill the increasing density of Capitol Hill's western slope is clearly evident.

Greater Seattle, with burgeoning growth and a geography constricted by many large bodies of water, has for years had the ignominious honor of being one of the most traffic crippled cities in the United States. According to the Seattle Times, which has set up an online Traffic Lab to report on the issue the automotive atherosclerosis will only become worse has dozens of construction projects and a growing population combine to create what city transportation planners euphemistically call “the period of Maximum constraint” When Interstate 5, was completed in 1962 the main artery through the region, the traffic volume was already beyond design capacity. As of 2017 the greater Seattle population was estimated 3,798,902. That includes Seattle Tacoma and Bellevue but not the close in suburbs which are also growing at a break-neck pace.

Greater Seattle, with burgeoning growth and a geography constricted by many large bodies of water, has for years had the ignominious honor of being one of the most traffic crippled cities in the United States. According to the Seattle Times, which has set up an online Traffic Lab to report on the issue the automotive atherosclerosis will only become worse has dozens of construction projects and a growing population combine to create what city transportation planners euphemistically call “the period of Maximum constraint” When Interstate 5, was completed in 1962 the main artery through the region, the traffic volume was already beyond design capacity. As of 2017 the greater Seattle population was estimated 3,798,902. That includes Seattle Tacoma and Bellevue but not the close in suburbs which are also growing at a break-neck pace.

Greater Seattle, with burgeoning growth and a geography constricted by many large bodies of water, has for years had the ignominious honor of being one of the most traffic crippled cities in the United States. According to the Seattle Times, which has set up an online Traffic Lab to report on the issue the automotive atherosclerosis will only become worse has dozens of construction projects and a growing population combine to create what city transportation planners euphemistically call “the period of Maximum constraint” When Interstate 5, was completed in 1962 the main artery through the region, the traffic volume was already beyond design capacity. As of 2017 the greater Seattle population was estimated 3,798,902. That includes Seattle Tacoma and Bellevue but not the close in suburbs which are also growing at a break-neck pace.

In Fast growing Seattle, a view down Dexter Avenue North into the heart of the growing South Lake Union district

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse. None of the tall buildings in the middle range of the picture existed six years ago.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

Seattle, at the end of 2017 was proclaimed by some to be the leader in a tight race with cities in the Southeast, as the fastest growing metro area in the US. At the beginning of 2018 62 construction cranes were swing their loads over the skyline, about 60 percent more cranes than any other U.S. city. Its hard to keep accurate current statistics but at the beginning of 2017 there were a total of 68 active construction projects underway, with a total of 110 major developments due to open in the next couple of years and dozens more on the drawing board. All this growth is providing employment for a small army of construction works and office space for some 40,000 Amazon employees among other professional workers. As a consequence of Amazon hiring and that by other companies in a burgeoning economy, the population within the city limits alone has risen by over 20 percent in the last seven years. The high paying jobs have had consequences good and bad but one thing is for sure; Seattle is no longer the provincial city tucked off in the corner of the country but has become an economic and technological powerhouse.

As home to a number of the region’s top tech companies, employment growth anticipated at almost 40 percent over the next ten years Bellevue and its neighboring cities Redmond, Bothell and Woodenville and at the top of the regional boom. Microsoft continues to expand is huge campus while new downtown Bellevue skyscrapers pop up in what 20 years ago was a series of small strip malls and whole new neighborhoods Kirkland volunteers and community members put the finishing touches on Square Park Gathering Place. The gathering place was built by community members under the design and guidance of Pomegranate Center, an Issaquah-based non-profit. The project was funded by Vermont-based Green Mountain Coffee owners of the Tully's Coffee brand.

As home to a number of the region’s top tech companies, employment growth anticipated at almost 40 percent over the next ten years Bellevue and its neighboring cities Redmond, Bothell and Woodenville and at the top of the regional boom. Microsoft continues to expand is huge campus while new downtown Bellevue skyscrapers pop up in what 20 years ago was a series of small strip malls and whole new neighborhoods Kirkland volunteers and community members put the finishing touches on Square Park Gathering Place. The gathering place was built by community members under the design and guidance of Pomegranate Center, an Issaquah-based non-profit. The project was funded by Vermont-based Green Mountain Coffee owners of the Tully's Coffee brand.