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Seattle is seattle homes for sale the largest city in the Pacific Northwest seattle pi region of the United States. It is located in new homes in seattle the U.S. State of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States–Canadian seattle realtors border in King County, of which it is the county seat.

Seattle was first settled seattle real estate for sale November 13, 1851 by Arthur Denny and and his crew, which would subsequently become known as the windermere real estate seattle Denny party. Its first name was seattle hotels New York, then Duwamps, then finally it was renamed Seattle named homes for sale in seattle after Chief Seattle who was chief of the two tribes living in the seattle wa real estate agent area. Seattle is an anglicized rendition of Chief Noah Sealth's last name. As of 2005, the city had an estimated population seattle real estate agent of 573,911^[1] and a metropolitan population of about 3.8 seattle area real estate million. Seattle is the hub for the Greater Puget Sound region. seattle weekly Its official nickname is the Emerald City, the result of a contest by a real estate in seattle civic-minded association in the early seattle dentist 1980s to designate a pleasant nickname for the city ^[3]; the seattle public library name alludes to the lush evergreen trees in the surrounding area. It is also referred to informally as the seattle real estate listings Rainy City (also Rain City), the Gateway to Alaska, Queen City, "The seattle real estate multiple listing Big Barista" ^{citation needed]} and Jet City, due to the craigslist seattle boats local influence of Boeing. Seattle residents are known as Seattleites.

Seattle is often regarded as the birthplace of grunge music, and has a reputation seattle post intelligencer for heavy coffee consumption; coffee companies founded in Seattle include Starbucks and seattle news Tully's. Many locals shun these giants in favor of Seattle's many independent, seattle eastside homes artisanal espresso roasters and cafes. Seattle was the site of the 1999 real estate agents seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization, and the attendant demonstrations by seattle washington homes anti-globalization activists, which were in keeping with Seattle's left-leaning history and reputation. Researchers at Central seattle homes wa Connecticut State University ranked Seattle the seattle university most literate city in America in 2005.^[4] Moreover, a United States Census Bureau survey showed that Seattle has the highest percentage of college seattle weather graduates of any major U.S. city. ^[5] Based on per capita homes for sale seattle income, Seattle ranks homes in seattle 36th of 522 studied areas in the state of Washington.

History

Founding

What is now Seattle has been inhabited since the end of the seattle aquarium last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). Archaeological real estate seattle washington excavations at West Point in Discovery Park, Magnolia confirm that the Seattle area has been inhabited by humans seattle lodging for at least 4,000 years and probably much longer.^[6] tohl-AHL-too ("herring population of seattle house") and later hah-AH-poos ("where there are horse clams") seattle airport at the then-mouth of the Duwamish River in what is now the Industrial District seattle metro had been inhabited since the 6th entury C.E.^[7] The windermere seattle Dkhw'Duw'Absh and Xachua'Bsh people (now called the Duwamish Tribe) occupied at least 17 villages in the mid-1850s,^[8] living in some seattle newspaper 93 permanent longhouses (khwaac'ál'al) along Elliott Bay, Salmon Bay, Portage Bay, Lake Washington, seattle street of dreams Lake Sammamish, and the lower Duwamish, Black, and Cedar seattle tourism Rivers.^[9]

Most of the Denny Party, the most prominent of seattle space needle the area's early Caucasian settlers (and historians), arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. They called the spot "New seattle real estate washington York" at first to reflect their seattle center aspirations to create a great trading port, later appending Alki, a Chinook seattle restaurants Jargon word meaning, roughly, by and by or someday, literally seattle personal injury attorney or ironically. They relocated their settlement to Elliott Bay in April 1852. The first plats for the Town of seattle accomodations Seattle were filed on May 23, 1853. Nominal legal land settlement was established in 1855. The city craig's list seattle was incorporated seattle bed and breakfast in 1865 and again in 1869, after having existed as an unincorporated town from 1867 to 1869. ^[10]

Seattle was named after Chief Sealth, (si'áb Si'ahl, Noah seattle wa Sealth), high-status man port of seattle (appointed chief by the territorial governor) of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.^[11] David Swinson prudential real estate agents seattle ("Doc") Maynard, one of the city seattle craiglist founders, was the primary advocate for naming the city after Chief Seattle. The name "Duwamish" is an Anglicization of Dkh^w'Duw'Absh, "the People of the seattle realtor Inside", and a variation of that name is preserved in seattle home for sale the name of the Duwamish River. Previously, the city had been known seattle homes for rent as Duwamps (or Duwumps), an earlier name settlers used for the river.^[12]

Major events

Major events in Seattle's medical facility design consultant seattle history include the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, which destroyed the central business district (but seattle craigs list took no lives)^[13]; the Klondike gold rush, which seattle skyline made Seattle a major transportation center; the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, which is largely responsible for the current layout of the seattle traffic University of Washington campus^[14]; the Seattle General Strike of real estate seattle 1919, the first general strike in the country^[15]; the 1962 Century 21 seattle chamber of commerce Exposition, a World's Fair^[16]; the seattle newspapers 1990 Goodwill Games^[17]; The Real World host city for 1997, and the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, marked by seattle pacific university street protests and a series of riots.^[18]

On February 28, 2001, a state of emergency seattle map was declared after the seattle mls Nisqually Earthquake, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake, rocked the region. Damage was moderate, but served as a seattle jobs reminder that the coastal Pacific Northwest — and the area around the Seattle Fault, in particular — seattle city light is under a constant threat of earthquakes. ^[19]

Seattle suffered its worst mass-killing seattle escort since the 1983 Wah Mee massacre when a 28-year-old man named Kyle Aaron Huff bite of seattle committed the Capitol Hill massacre on March 25, 2006, seattle wrongful death attorney followed by an attempted spree killing by Naveed seattle slew Afzal Haq that left one dead at the Jewish Federation building in bed and breakfast seattle July. Seattle's crime peaked in 1994 with 69 murders. In 2004, Seattle murder rate hit a 40-year low with 24 sleepless in seattle homicides. Seattle's crime rate has increased in 2006 as it has in Tacoma and Lakewood, seattle realestate Washington.

Economic history

Seattle has a history of boom and bust cycles historically common in cities of its size. Seattle has been sent into condos in seattle precipitous decline by the aftermaths of its worst periods as a company town, but has seattle public schools typically used those periods to successfully web site design seattle rebuild infrastructure.^[20]

The first such boom, covering the early years of seattle bed and breakfasts the city, was fueled by the lumber industry. (It was during this period that the road now known as seattle eastside real estate Yesler Way was nicknamed "Skid Road" seattle rentals ^[21] after the timber skidding down the street to Henry Yesler's sawmill. The term later entered the wider American vocabulary as seattle times. Skid Row.) This boom was followed by seattle dui attorney the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system.

The second, and largest boom, was the seattle times the direct result of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. This seattle property gold rush ended the nation's depression, which had begun with the Panic of 1893. On July 14, seattle vacations 1897 when the S.S. Portland docked with its famed "ton of gold", and Seattle became the main transport and supply rental homes seattle point for those heading north. The boom lasted well seattle sutton into the early part of chief seattle the 20th century and funded the start-up of many new companies and products. seattle homes In 1907, 19-year-old James E. Casey founded the American Messenger Company in Seattle with $100 borrowed from real estate agent seattle a friend which later became UPS. Like UPS, other companies such as Nordstrom and Eddie Bauer, exist to this day. ^[22]

Next came the shipbuilding boom in the early part of the 20th century, seattle washington mls manufactured homes followed by the unused city development plan of Virgil Bogue. Seattle was craig's list for employment in seattle area the major point of departure during hotels in seattle World War II for troops heading to the north Pacific, and Boeing manufactured many of the fighters and bombers.

After the lodging seattle war, the local economy dipped but rose again seattle times classified with the expansion of Boeing, fueled by the growth of the commercial aviation industry.^[23] When this particular cycle lease to own homes seattle went into a major downturn in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many left the seattle airport parking area to look for work elsewhere, and two local real estate agents put up a billboard reading aikido with seattle "Will the last person leaving Seattle — Turn lease to own in seattle out the lights."^[24] ^[25]

Seattle remained the corporate headquarters of Boeing until 2001, when the company announced a desire to separate its lease to own seattle headquarters from its major seattle av production facilities. Following a bidding war among a number of major cities, Boeing moved its corporate seattle family lawyer headquarters to Chicago. The Seattle area is still home to Boeing's seattle houses Renton narrow-body plant (where the 707, 720, 727, and 757 were assembled, bed and breakfast in seattle and the 737 is assembled today), and Everett wide-body plant (assembly plant for the 747, 767, 777 and the upcoming seattle area lodging 787 Dreamliner); and BECU, formerly the Boeing Employees bed and breakfast around seattle Credit Union.

The most recent boom centered around the development of software technology. Microsoft; companies involved with Internet development, telecommunications bed and breakfast seattle washington companies (such as Amazon.com, RealNetworks, McCaw Communications (later acquired by AT&T and renamed seattle attractions AT&T Wireless), and seattle seafair VoiceStream (later acquired by Deutsche Telekom and renamed T-Mobile USA), and biomedical corporations seattle suites such as Philips, Boston Scientific, and ZymoGenetics found homes in Seattle and seattle ferry its suburbs. Even locally-headquartered Starbucks held investments in numerous Internet and software interests. Although some of century 21 reality seattle washington these companies remain relatively strong, the frenzied boom years had ended by early 2001.

Geography

Seattle is seattle radio stations located between Puget Sound, seattle waterfront lodging an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington. West beyond the Sound are the Olympic Mountains; east beyond Lake Washington and the Eastside suburbs seattle tutors are Lake Sammamish, the Newcastle Hills, and the Cascade Range. seattle christian singles The rivers, forests, lakes, and seattle lighting fields were once rich enough to support one of the world's few sedentary hunter-gatherer societies. seattle protests Opportunities for sailing, skiing, bicycling, camping, and hiking are nearby and accessible almost all the year.

The city itself, map of seattle somewhat like San Francisco, is hilly, though not uniformly so. Like prudential real estate seattle washington Rome, the city lies on seven hills: First seattle area homes Hill, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne Hill, Magnolia, Beacon Hill, Mount Baker, and Crown Hill. West Seattle allegedly seattle cottages forms an eighth hill, since the highest point in the city rises 520 feet out of the ocean there seattle foreclosure homes in the High Point neighbourhood. The hilliest areas are near an isthmus in the city wedding chapels south seattle wa centre, where Downtown rises dramatically away from the chief harbour, an inlet homes for rent seattle of Puget Sound called Elliott Bay. seattle entertainment The geography of Downtown and its immediate environs has been significantly altered by regrading projects, a seawall, and the construction of seattle rental homes an seattle seo artificial island, Harbor Island, at the mouth of the city's industrial Duwamish Waterway.

The man-made Lake Washington Ship Canal bisects the city, incorporating four natural seattle craigslist bodies of seattle homes in washington water: Lake Union, Salmon Bay, Portage Bay, and Union Bay. The canal real estate seattle mls connects Puget Sound to Lake Washington, the Chittenden Locks (Ballard Locks) forming the juncture where saltwater seattle magazine meets freshwater.

An active geological fault, the Seattle Fault, runs under the city. Although neither the Seattle Fault nor seattle washington homes for sale the Cascadia Subduction Zone have caused an earthquake since the craiglist seattle city’s founding, the city has been hit by four major earthquakes: December 14, 1872 (magnitude 7.3); seattle domestic violence lawyer April 13, 1949 (7.1); April 29, 1965 (6.5); and the Nisqually seattle storm Earthquake of February 28, 2001 (6.8). The Cascadia subduction zone poses the even greater threat of an earthquake electronic medical records seattle of magnitude 9.0 or greater, capable of seriously seattle yellow pages damaging the city and collapsing many buildings, particularly Downtown and the mls listings seattle Industrial District, which is built on fill.

Seattle is located seattle police at 47°37′35″N, 122°19′59″W (47.626353, −122.333144)¹, which is a spot in the middle of the Marriott Residence Inn at 800 search engine optimization seattle Fairview Avenue N, on the south end of Lake Union.

According to seattle hotel the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total seattle slip and fall attorney area of 369.2 km² (142.5 mi²)^GR1, 217.2 km² (83.9 mi²) of escorts seattle which is land and 152.0 km² (58.7 mi²) water. The total area is 41.16% water.

See also: Seattle finding rental homes in seattle neighborhoods, List of Seattle parks, Bodies of water of home search seattle Seattle, Seven hills of Seattle

Climate

Seattle has a calm and mild temperate seattle fire department marine climate, since the temperature is moderated seattle home search by the sea and protected from winds and storms by the mountains. Despite being partially in the rain shadow seattle part time jobs seattle part time jobs of the Olympic Mountains, the city of Seattle has a reputation for frequent rain.^[26] In reality, the hotels seattle "rainy city" receives an unremarkable 38 inches (970 mm) of precipitation a seattle symphony year, less than most major cities of seattle criminal lawyer the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, such as New York City, which has an annual average 47.3 aeroflot seattle inches (1200 mm) of precipitation. Seattle's escort seattle worldwide reputation for rain derives from the fact that it is cloudy an average of fabric stores seattle 226 days per year (vs. 132 in New York City) and the fact that most of its precipitation falls seattle community network consistently as drizzle seattle downtown hotels or light rain, with snow typically falling within the city limits only once or twice a year. While not seattle times newspaper all that much rain falls in total, then, the winters are filled with days on which at least seattle independent escorts a little rain does fall, seattle ferries and even if it does not rain it usually looks seattle monorail as if it may. Annual average temperatures range from a low of upper 30s °F seattle web site design (around 2 or 3 °C) on winter nights to a high of mid-to-high 70s °F (middle 20s °C) on summer days. Seattle's seattle white pages hottest recorded temperature was 102 °F (38.9 °C) on guitar lessons seattle July 20, 1994; the coldest recorded sales jobs in seattle area temperature was 0 °F (-17.7 °C) on January 31, 1950.

To the west 80 miles (130 km), the seattle high conflict divorce lawyer Hoh Rain Forest, in Olympic National Park on the western flank of the Olympic Mountains, receives an annual average rainfall seattle to alaska cruise of 142 inches tantra seattle (3600 mm), and the state capital, Olympia, south of the rain christian churches bellvue seattle shadow, receives an annual average rainfall of 52 inches (1320 mm). Snowfall is infrequent, especially at lower altitudes debt consolidation credit counseling seattle and near the coast, and is usually light and fleeting. On January 13, 1950, Seattle's seattle bartending record for snowfall was set at 20 inches (508 mm).^[27] Sunnier and drier "California weather" typically dominates from mid-July to mid-September. An average of 0.79 inches (20 mm) of seattle sonics rain falls in July and an average of 1.02 inches (26 seattle zip codes mm) falls in August.

The Puget Sound Convergence Zone is an important car rental seattle feature of Seattle's weather. In the convergence zone, air seattle home based business owners arriving in the area from the north meets air flowing in from the south. Both streams of air originate over the seattle opera Pacific Ocean; airflow is split by the Olympic Mountains to Seattle's seattle parks and recreation west, then reunited by the Cascade Mountains to the east. When the air currents meet, seattle underground they are forced upward, resulting in convection. An active convergence zone results seattle zip code in rain at the very least (snow in the Cascades), summer jobs seattle and sometimes more severe weather such as thunderstorms and hail. wireless internet seattle Usually the zone forms north of Seattle in the Edmonds and Lynnwood area, but depending on the seattle amicable divorce lawyer relative strengths of the winds it can range as far south as Pierce County or as seattle history far north as Skagit County. ^[28]

An exception to Seattle's dampness often seattle parks occurs in El Niño years, when the marine weather seattle sorority systems track as far south as seattle sounders California and little precipitation falls in the Puget Sound area. Since the region's water comes from mountain snowpacks w hotel seattle during the drier summer months, El Niño winters not only produce substandard skiing but can consumer credit counseling seattle result in water rationing and a shortage of hydro-electric power the following seattle times classifieds summer.

Demographics

As of the U.S. Census of 2000, Seattle seattle thunderbirds had a population of 563,374, and the Greater Seattle metropolitan area had a population web cams seattle about 3.8 million. The hotel monaco seattle population today is approximately 73.40% White Americans. This figure represents the national average, which seattle boat show was 80.4% in 2004, more proportionately than do the lower figures of seattle cancer care alliance other American cities, suggesting that Seattle has suffered less from the "white flight" and racial segregation of those cities.^[31] Moreover, seattle dui the city does seattle nightlife have a high percentage, 4.70%, of people who claim ancestry from seattle science center two or more races. ^[32] As of the 2000 U.S. Census, 13.71% of Seattlites were Asian Americans, seattle washington newspaper 8.44% were African Americans, 1.10% were Native Americans, 0.50% credit and debt counseling seattle were Pacific Islander American, and 6.84% were from other backgrounds. 5.28% of the population was Hispanic or seattle classifieds Latino of any race. In addition, Seattle has seen a major increase in legal and illegal immigration in recent decades. seattle convention center The foreign-born population increased 40% between the 1990 seattle ferry schedule and 2000 censuses.^[32] Hispanics seattle gift show are believed to be the most rapidly growing ethnic group in Washington, with an estimated increase of 10% just from 2000 to 2002, seattle hempfest though they digital copying seattle have tended to settle outside the city, in rural areas where agricultural jobs are abundant.^[33]

The median income for a household in the city is $45,736, and the median income for a family is $62,195. Males have seattle dui attorneys a median income of $40,929 versus $35,134 for females. The per capita income for seattle free dish network satellite tv the city is $30,306. 11.8% of seattle liposuction the population and 6.9% of families are below the poverty seattle movies line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.8% are under the age of 18 and 10.2% are 65 or older.

It is seattle post-intelligencer estimated best escorts seattle that 1.25% of the population is homeless, and that up to 14% of Seattle's homeless childrens hospital seattle are children and young adults. Despite many blemishes in Seattle's treatment of homeless citizens, seattle motels local charities have made attempts to lower the ballooning homeless population of some 8,000. Local non-profit organizations dealing with seattle neighborhoods poverty and related seattle pilots issues include the Fremont Public Association, the Asian Counseling and Referral Service, Peace seattle population for the Streets by Kids from the Streets, and the Seattle Indian Center.^[34] In September 2005, King County adopted a "Ten-Year Plan to seattle rhinoplasty End Homelessness", seattle web design one of the near-term results of which is a shift of funding from homeless shelter beds to permanent spinal cord injury lawyer seattle housing.^[35]

In 2006, after growing by 4,000 citizens per year for the previous 16 years, the seattle weekly regional planners expect the computer training seattle population of Seattle to grow by 200,000 people by 2040. However, Mayor Nickels supports plans that would increase the population by 60 percent, hotel seattle or 350,000 people, limos in seattle area by 2040 and is currently working on ways to accommodate this growth while keeping Seattle's single-family housing seattle dui lawyers zoning laws.^[36]In 2006, the Seattle City Council voted to relax height limits on buildings in seattle mortgage the greater part of Downtown, partly with seattle search engine optimization the aim of increasing residential density in the city centre.

In 2005, Men's Fitness magazine named underground seattle Seattle the fittest city in the United States.^[37]

Government and politics

Seattle is a charter city, with a Mayor-Council form of government, unlike many of its neighbors that use the Council-Manager bartender seattle form. Seattle's mayor and nine city council members are elected at cheap airfare to europe from seattle large, rather than by geographic subdivisions. The only other elected office is the city dui attorney seattle attorney. hotels in seattle hotels in seattle All offices are non-partisan.

The city government provides more utilities than many cities – either seattle guitar lessons by running the whole operation, such as the water, sewer, and electricity services, or by handling the billing and administration, but contracting out seattle part time jobs the rest of the operations such as trash and recycling collection. In most neighboring cities, seattle transit for example, electricity is provided by either a weather seattle private company such as Puget craig's list, seattle Sound Energy, or a county public utility district. See the Utilities section for more details.

As with most U.S. cities, the county judicial system handles felony edgewater hotel seattle crimes — the Seattle Municipal Court deals with parking tickets, rei seattle traffic infractions, and misdemeanors. Seattle does not seafair seattle have its own jail, contracting out inmates it convicts to either the King seattle concerts County Jail (which is located downtown), the Yakima County Jail, or (for short-term holdings) the Renton seattle multiple listing service City Jail. In 2004, there were only twenty-four murders in Seattle, space needle seattle the fewest since 1965. Violent crime has declined by nearly 42% since craigslist seattle car parts 1994, to a rate of approximately seven per 1,000 people. Auto theft has increased exercise equipment seattle about 44% in the same period; the Seattle Police Department has responded by nearly jobs seattle doubling the number of auto theft detail detectives, and is starting a "bait car" program. A Money magazine metro seattle table, using 2001 seattle bartender statistics, ranked Seattle 18th highest in crime rate in the U.S., with 80.5 crimes per 1,000 citizens.

Seattle's politics have seattle city search leaned to the left in the last few decades compared to the United seattle defense attorney States as a whole, although there is seattle film works a small libertarian movement within the metro area. Only two precincts in Seattle—one located in the famously exclusive Broadmoor community, and one encompassing seattle movie times condos within neighboring Madison seattle tile Park—voted for Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Bush won the seattle tumescent liposuction Broadmoor precinct by a moderate margin, although much smaller than in the warwick hotel seattle 2000 presidential election. Madison Park was very close, also much closer than in 2000. The web design seattle remaining precincts carried by Bush in 2000 all went for Kerry in 2004. In partisan elections, such cheap air fares to seattle as for the Washington State Legislature and United States Congress, most elections are won by Democrats, with Greens craigs list, seattle getting more votes than eros seattle in many other cities. Seattle dominates Washington's 7th congressional district, in which Representative Jim McDermott routinely jobs in seattle wins by a large margin.

Official nickname, flower, slogan, and song

In 1981, Seattle held a living in seattle contest to come up with a portable air conditioners seattle new official nickname to replace "the Queen City." "Queen City" had been devised by real estate promoters princess cruise lines in seattle and used since 1869, but was also the nickname of: Cincinnati; Denver; Toronto; Buffalo; Bangor, Maine; Helena, Montana; rv storage seattle Burlington, Vermont and Charlotte, North Carolina. The winner of this contest, selected in 1982, was seattle abdominoplasty "the Emerald City". Submitted by seattle business web site hosting Californian Sarah Sterling-Franklin, it referred to the lush surroundings of Seattle that were seattle calendar events the result of frequent rain. Seattle has also seattle criminal defense attorneys been known in the past as "the Jet City"—though this nickname, related to Boeing, was entirely unofficial. seattle criminal defense lawyer (This nickname is the origin of the title of the seattle lawyer song "Jet City Woman" by Seattle progressive metal band Queensrÿche). Rat City, a nickname originally seattle maps earned by the White Center area, is also occasionally used by locals.

Seattle's official flower has been the dahlia seattle pictures since 1913. Its official song has been "Seattle the Peerless City" since seattle sounder 1909. In 1942, its official slogan was "The City of Flowers"; 48 years later, tooth whitening seattle in 1990, it was "The City of Goodwill", for the Goodwill Games held that year in Seattle. accounting jobs in seattle The official bird of Seattle is the Great Blue Heron, named by the cheap air fare seattle to helsinki City Council in 2003.

Seattle mayors of note

Sister cities

Seattle is internationally partnered seattle metro transit with a number of sister cities to promote global cooperation, cultural seattle plastic surgeon exchange and economic collaboration. See List of Seattle sister cities for a complete list.

Economy

Five companies on the 2006 Fortune 500 list of the United States' largest companies, based on visit seattle washington total revenue, are currently headquartered in Seattle: financial services company Washington Mutual (#99), Internet retailer consumer credit counseling service of seattle Amazon.com (#272), department store Nordstrom (#293), consumer credit counseling service seattle coffee chain Starbucks (#338), and insurance company Safeco Corporation (#339). Just shy of making the list is global logistics firm Expeditors International criagslist seattle (#506).^[39] Other cynthia brennan seattle Fortune 500 companies popularly associated with Seattle are based in nearby Puget Sound cities. Warehouse club chain Costco Wholesale Corp. (#28), the largest design flash seattle web company in Washington, is based in Issaquah. Microsoft (#48), the American Division of Nintendo, environmental education jobs in seattle Nintendo of America, and cellular telephone pioneer McCaw Cellular, map of seattle washington prior to being bought out by AT&T Wireless in 1994 and then merging nissan seattle with Cingular in 2004, are all located in Redmond. Weyerhaeuser, the forest products company (#90), is based red lion hotel on 5th ave seattle in renters insurance seattle Federal Way. Finally, Bellevue is home to truck manufacturer PACCAR (#157) and international mobile telephony giant T-Mobile's U.S. subsidiary T-Mobile USA. ^[39] See List seattle archdiocese of companies based in Seattle for a more detailed compilation.

Prior to moving seattle cosmetic surgeon its headquarters to Chicago, aerospace seattle face lift manufacturer Boeing (#26) was the largest company based in seattle food delivery Seattle. Its largest division is still headquartered in Renton, and the company has large aircraft seattle furniture stores manufacturing plants in Everett and Renton, so it remains one of the largest private employers in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced used music gear seattle craigs list a desire to spark a new economic boom business for sale in seattle washington driven by the biotechnology industry in 2006. Major redevelopment of the South Lake Union neighborhood carpet cleaning seattle is underway in an effort to attract new and established biotech companies to the cheap flights seattle city, joining current biotech companies Corixa (acquired by consumer credit counseling services of seattle wa GlaxoSmithKline), Immunex (now part of Amgen), and ZymoGenetics. The effort has public support and some financial dead sea scrolls seattle backing from Paul Allen (whose contribution has resulted in some grand hyatt seattle calling the neighborhood "Allentown"). The same year, Expansion Magazine ranked Seattle among landscape design seattle the top 10 metropolitan areas in the nation for musicians seattle climates favorable to business expansion.^[40] In 2005, however, Forbes ranked Seattle as the most expensive American city for pike place market seattle buying a house based on the local income levels. seattle advertising firm ^[41]

Education

Of the city's seattle airport transportation population over the age of 25, 47.2% (vs. a national average of 24%) hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 93% (vs. 80% seattle car rental nationally) have a high school diploma seattle colleges or equivalent. In fact, United States Census Bureau survey showed that Seattle has the seattle criminal attorneys highest percentage of college graduates of any major U.S. city.^[5] In seattle defense attorneys addition to the obvious institutions of education, seattle defense lawyer there are significant adult literacy programs and considerable homeschooling. Seattle is also the most literate city in the United States seattle defense lawyers based on a study done by Central seattle domestic violence lawyers Connecticut State University.^[4]

Like most urban American public school systems, Seattle Public Schools has been subject seattle event planners publicity to numerous controversies. Seattle's schools desegregated without a seattle personal injury lawyers court order but continue to struggle to achieve racial balance in a somewhat ethnically divided city (the south part of town having more sorrento hotel seattle ethnic minorities than the north). The schools have maintained high enough educational standards to keep white uss seattle flight (and middle-class flight in general) to a minimum, but some of businesses for sale in seattle the area's suburban public school systems — not all of them downtown seattle in wealthy suburbs — have consistently higher test scores. Notably, Seattle schools seem to be how is the weather in seattle failing their minority students, as high academic standards are not realized photography classes seattle uniformly by all racial red lion hotel seattle groups in many of the city's secondary schools. In 2006, Seattle's often trademarked racial tie-breaking system was ruled by the Supreme Court unconstitutional. And in seattle dwi attorneys 2002, West Seattle's West Seattle High School made headlines in the midst of seattle facelift seattle hospitals protests of the school's "Indian" mascot. Despite bitter battles between SPS and Alumni Association President/Attorney Robert Zoffel, the school would seattle imax later change its mascot to the "Wildcats".

The public school system is supplemented by a moderate seattle tides number of private schools: five of the high schools are Catholic, one is Lutheran, and six seattle tours are seattle washington newspapers secular.

Post-secondary education in Seattle is dominated by the University of Washington. With over 40,000 under-graduates and post-graduates, it stranger seattle is the largest school in the Pacific Northwest and is ranked among the street of dreams seattle top research universities in the United States. Most prominent of the city's other town homes for sale seattle universities are Seattle University, a Jesuit university, and Seattle Pacific University, founded by the wood pellets seattle Free Methodists. There are also a handful carpet cleaning service seattle of smaller schools, such as City University, a private secular school; Antioch University Seattle [9], which provides graduate and undergraduate degrees for cheap flights to seattle working adults; and others mainly in the fine arts, business and psychology. The venerable coffee manufactures in seattle Cornish College of the Arts offers bachelor's degrees in such disciplines as dance, music, and design ecommerce seattle site web theatre. Seattle downtown seattle hotel is also served by North Seattle, Seattle Central, and South Seattle Community Colleges. Time magazine laser hair removal seattle chose Seattle Central Community College for best college of the year in 2001, claiming limousine rental seattle that the school "pushes diverse students to work together in small mosler lofts seattle teams".^[42]

Culture

Landmarks

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Other notable Seattle landmarks include the Smith things to see in seattle washington Tower, Pike Place Market, the Fremont Troll, the Experience Music Project (which is at Seattle Center), the new Seattle Central Library, the Washington Mutual Tower, Broadway, a street made famous by the Sir Mix-A-Lot song Posse On Broadway, and the Columbia Center, which is the fourth tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi River and the twelfth tallest in the nation. (On June 16, 2004, the 9/11 Commission reported that the original plan for the September 11, 2001 attacks included the Columbia Center as one of ten targeted buildings.)^[43]

Starbucks Coffee has been at Pike Place Market since the coffee company was founded there in 1971. The first store is still operating a block south of its original location.^[44]

Annual cultural events and fairs

Among Seattle's best-known annual cultural events and fairs are the 24-day Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout the summer months (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, and Bumbershoot over the Labor Day weekend. All are typically attended by over 100,000 people annually, as are Hempfest and two separate Independence Day celebrations.

Several dozen Seattle neighborhoods have one or more annual street fairs, and many have an annual parade or foot race. The largest of the street fairs feature hundreds of craft and food booths and multiple stages with live entertainment, and draw more than 100,000 people over the course of a weekend; the smallest are strictly neighborhood affairs with a few dozen craft and food booths, barely distinguishable from more prominent neighborhoods' weekly farmers' markets.

Other significant events include numerous Native American powwows, a Greek Festival hosted by St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Montlake, and numerous ethnic festivals associated with Festal at Seattle Center.

As in most large cities, there are numerous other annual events of more limited interest, ranging from book fairs; the premier anime convention in the Pacific Northwest, Sakura-Con; and specialized film festivals, such as the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, to a two-day, 8,000-rider Seattle-to-Portland bicycle ride and a Gay Pride parade and festival. In the past, the Gay Pride parade and festival have been centred on Capitol Hill. Since 2006, festivities have been held city-wide, and the parade has followed a route in Downtown to the Seattle Center amusement park. ^[45]

Performing arts

Seattle has been known as a significant center for regional performing arts for many years. The century-old Seattle Symphony Orchestra is among the world's most recorded orchestras ^[46] and performs primarily at Benaroya Hall. The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, which perform at McCaw Hall (which opened 2003 on the site of the former Seattle Opera House at Seattle Center), are comparably distinguished, with the Opera being particularly known for its performances of the works of Richard Wagner and the PNB School (founded in 1974) ranking as one of the top three ballet training institutions in the United States.^[47] The Seattle Youth Symphony is the largest symphonic youth organization in the United States, and among the most distinguished.

The historic 5th Avenue Theatre, built in 1926, has continued to stage Broadway quality musical shows featuring both local talent and international stars. The theatre's "Chinese Timber Architecture" is based on The Forbidden City's Imperial and Summer Palaces. In addition, Seattle has about twenty other live theatre venues, a slim majority of them being associated with fringe theatre. It has a strong local scene for poetry slams and other performance poetry, and several venues that routinely present public lectures or readings. The largest of these is Seattle's 900-seat, Romanesque Revival Town Hall on First Hill.

Seattle is often thought of as the home of grunge rock musicians like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, and Mudhoney, all of whom reached vast audiences in the early 1990s. The city is also home to such varied musicians as avant-garde jazz musicians Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz, rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, heavy metal band Nevermore, industrial rockers KMFDM, and such poppier rock bands as Goodness and the Presidents of the United States of America. Such musicians as Jimi Hendrix, Duff McKagan, Nikki Sixx, and Quincy Jones spent their formative years in Seattle. Ann and Nancy Wilson of the band Heart, often attributed to Seattle, were actually from neighboring Bellevue, as were progressive metal band Queensrÿche.

Since the grunge era, the Seattle area has hosted a diverse and influential alternative music scene. The Seattle-based record label Sub Pop—the first to sign Nirvana—has signed such non-grunge bands as Murder City Devils, Sunny Day Real Estate, Skinny Puppy, The Postal Service, and The Shins. Other Seattle-area bands of note in this period include Death Cab for Cutie (Bellingham), Foo Fighters, Modest Mouse (Issaquah), and Sleater-Kinney (Olympia).

Earlier Seattle-based popular music acts include the collegiate folk group The Brothers Four; The Wailers, a 1960s garage band; the Allies and the Heaters (later "the Heats"), 1980s teen-pop bands; from that same era, the more sophisticated pop of the short-lived Visible Targets and the still-performing Young Fresh Fellows and Posies; and the pop-punk of The Fastbacks and the outright punk of the Fartz (later Ten Minute Warning), The Gits, and Seven Year Bitch.

Seattlites have also collaborated with innovative, experimental musicians from around the world, while the city has hosted their performances. French composer Jean-Jacques Perrey, who pioneered electronica in the 1960s, has worked with Seattle native Dana Countryman, best known for his work with the 1980s Seattle pop/humour group the Amazing Pink Things. Perrey performed the tracks resulting from his work with Countryman at his first American show, in Seattle in 2006.

Spoken word and poetry are also staples of the Seattle arts scene, paralleling the explosion of the independent music scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Seattle's performance poetry scene blossomed with the importation of the poetry slam from Chicago (its origin) by transplant Paul Granert. This and the proliferation of weekly readings, open mics, and poetry-friendly club venues like the Weathered Wall, the OK Hotel, and the Ditto Tavern (all now defunct), allowed spoken-word/performance poetry to take off in a big way. The Seattle Poetry Festival (launched first as the Poetry Circus in 1997) has featured local, regional, national, and international names in poetry such as Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Ted Jones, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ismael Reed, Seku Sundiata, and many others. Regionally famed poets like Bart Baxter, Tess Gallagher, and Rebecca Brown have also been featured at the Poetry Festival, as well as numerous other events such as the world-famous Bumbershoot Arts Festival.

Museums and art collections

The Henry Art Gallery opened in 1927, making it the first museum in Washington. The main Seattle Art Museum opened in 1933. Art collections are also housed at the Frye Art Museum and the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

Regional history collections are at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, the Museum of History and Industry and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Industry-specific collections are housed at the Center for Wooden Boats, the Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum, and the Museum of Flight. Regional ethnic collections include the Nordic Heritage Museum and the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

In addition, Seattle has a thriving artist-run gallery scene, including 10 year veteran Soil Art Gallery, and the newer Crawl Space Gallery.

Other attractions

The Woodland Park Zoo, opened as a private zoo in 1889, is the oldest on the West Coast, and has been a leader in innovations in naturalistic zoo exhibits. The Seattle Aquarium has been open on the downtown waterfront since 1977. The Seattle Underground Tour, an exhibit of places that existed before the Great Fire, is also popular. There are also many community centers for recreation, including Rainier Beach, Van Asselt, Rainier, and Jefferson south of the Ship Canal and Green Lake, Laurelhurst, and Loyal Heights north of the Canal.

Media

Seattle's leading newspapers are the daily Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer; they share their advertising, circulation, and business departments under a Joint Operating Agreement, which (as of 2004) the Times is seeking to terminate or renegotiate.^[48]

The most prominent weeklies are the Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, and the Puget Sound Business Journal. Seattle Weekly and The Stranger consider themselves "alternative" papers; the famously irreverent The Stranger has a reputation for carrying a younger and hipper readership, while the more staid Weekly has a longstanding reputation for in-depth coverage of arts and local politics. There are also several ethnic newspapers and numerous neighborhood newspapers, including Northwest Asian Weekly.

Seattle is also well served by television and radio. Seattle's major network television affiliates are KOMO 4 (ABC), KING-TV 5 (NBC), KIRO 7 (CBS), KCTS 9 (PBS), KSTW 11 (The CW), KCPQ 13 (FOX), KONG 16/6 (Ind.), KMYQ 22/10 (MNTV), and KWPX 33/3 (i); five of them can be seen across Canada via digital cable or satellite. Seattle cable viewers also receive CBUT 2 CBC from Vancouver, British Columbia, often as cable channel 99.

Leading radio stations include NPR affiliates KUOW-FM 94.9 and KPLU-FM 88.5 (Tacoma). Other notable stations include KEXP-FM 90.3 (affiliated with EMP), 91.3FM (affiliated with Bellevue Community College), and KNHC-FM 89.5, which broadcasts an electronic music format and is owned by the public school system and operated by students of Nathan Hale High School. Many Seattle radio stations are also available through internet radio, with KUOW, KNHC, and KEXP being notable web radio innovators. Popular commercial radio stations in Seattle include KUBE 93.3, KMPS 94.1, KNDD 107.7, KVI-AM 570, KIRO-AM 710 and KOMO-AM 1000. Seattle is also home to KING-FM, one of the last commercial classical music stations in the United States.

On the Internet, Seattle is covered by the blogs Seattlest, Seattle Metroblogging and Slog, among others.

Sports

Seattle's professional sports history began at the start of the 20th century with the PCHA's Seattle Metropolitans, which in 1917 became the first American hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, and continues today with the city's four major professional teams, the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, the MLB's Seattle Mariners, and the WNBA's Seattle Storm. Seattle also boasts a strong history in collegiate sports, the NCAA Division I school University of Washington and the NCAA Division II schools Seattle Pacific University and Seattle University.

Outdoor activities

Seattle's mild climate helps a huge proportion of its population engage in outdoor recreation, including walking, bicycling, hiking, and swimming, among others. The downtown REI is that chain's flagship store, and carries gear for all those activities. In town many people walk around Green Lake, through the forests and along the bluffs and beaches of 535-acre Discovery Park (the largest park in the city) in Magnolia, along the shores of Myrtle Edwards Park on the Downtown waterfront, or along Alki Beach in West Seattle. Also popular are hikes in the nearby Cascade or Olympic Mountains and kayaking and sailing in the waters of Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Strait of Georgia. The San Juan Islands, with their sunny climate and labyrinthine waterways, are especially popular among sailing enthusiasts and passengers aboard the Washington State Ferries on their way to Victoria.

Infrastructure

Significant Buildings

Transportation

Even though Seattle is old enough that railways and streetcars once dominated its transportation system, the city is now largely dominated by automobiles. Seattle is also serviced by an extensive network of bus routes and two commuter rail routes connecting it to many of its suburbs.

Public transportation

The first streetcars appeared in 1889 and were instrumental in the creation of a relatively well-defined downtown and strong neighborhoods at the end of their lines. Unfortunately, the advent of the automobile proved to be the death knell for rail in Seattle. Tacoma-Seattle railway service ended in 1929 and the Everett-Seattle service came to an end in 1939, replaced by inexpensive automobiles running on the recently developed highway system. With the removal or paving over of the rails on city streets and the arrival of trolleybuses, 1941 brought the end of streetcars in Seattle. This left only an extensive network of buses to provide mass transit within the city and throughout the region.^[49]

Seattle is serviced by three transit authorities. King County Metro provides frequent stop bus service within the city and surrounding county, of which about fifteen of its bus routes serving are hybrid buses using a combination of diesel fuel when outside the downtown area and overhead electrical wires while in the downtown area. Like Vancouver, British Columbia, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California, Seattle is one of the few cities in North America that use electric trolleybuses.

The second transit authority that services Seattle is Sound Transit, which provides express bus service between the suburbs and downtown Seattle. Beginning September 18, 2000, Sound Transit began operating "Sounder", a commuter rail system that connects Seattle to Tacoma and another of other suburbs to the south and Everett other suburbs to the north.^[50] Sound Transit also began construction on the 15.7 mile Central Link Light Rail in November 2003 that will connect downtown Seattle to SeaTac Airport. Ultimately the Link Light Rail system will connect downtown to University of Washington and Northgate Mall to the north, Bellevue and Redmond to the east, and Federal Way, Des Moines, and possibly as far south as Tacoma.^[51]

The third, and possibly most interesting, transit authority is the largest network of ferries in the United States, third largest in the world, that connects Seattle to Bainbridge Island and Vashon Island in Puget Sound and Bremerton and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula. This ferry system is operated by Washington State Ferries and consists of 10 routes (4 servicing Seattle), 20 terminals (2 in Seattle), and 28 vessels (8 servicing Seattle).^[52]

A monorail line constructed for the 1962 Exposition still exists today between Seattle Center and downtown and is used by tourists and by commuters from the north, who often find it cheaper to park at Seattle Center and take the 1 mile route to work rather than taking their car downtown. On November 26, 2005 the monorail's two trains collided on a curve near Westlake Center where a design flaw made it impossible to pass safely. Both trains are currently being repaired at an estimated cost of $3-4 million and are not expected to be in operation until summer 2006.^[53]

In the 1990s the city proposed building a longer monorail as a real commuter service replacing the existing tourist attraction, but nothing came of two voter approved initiatives in the 90s. Ultimately Seattle voters approved the creation of the 14 mile Green Line connecting West Seattle and Ballard to downtown in November 2002. Controversy over scope, governance, financial difficulties, and other issues led to two additional votes with the final vote, November 2005, bringing the Green Line to an end.^[54]

The South Lake Union line of the Seattle Streetcar passed full City Council on June 27, 2005. The streetcar is "on track" to be built and operating by 2007. The 2.6 mile (4.2 km) streetcar line will run between the Westlake Center shopping mall in Downtown and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Eastlake. Property owners along the right-of-way will pay about $25 million of the $45 million total capital cost through a local improvement district.^[55]

Major highways

While Seattle has its share of interstates, I-5 and I-90, and state routes, SR 99, SR 509, SR 520, SR 522, and SR 523, the most interesting features of its roadway system are the floating bridges. Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, and Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge are the 1st,^[56] 2nd, and 5th longest floating bridges in the world and connect Seattle to Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Kirkland across Lake Washington.^{citation needed]} Another interesting feature is a double decked elevated structure called the Alaskan Way Viaduct (SR 99) that runs along the Seattle waterfront from just south of the Qwest Field and Safeco Park south of downtown, to the Battery Street Tunnel at the north end. Until I-5 was built, this was the main north-south route through the city. There is considerable concern that a major earthquake could cause the viaduct to collapse in much the same way that Oakland's Cypress Street Viaduct failed in the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. A plan to replace the viaduct with a tunnel—-thereby removing an unsafe structure while improving access from downtown to the waterfront--has generated significant debate over its cost and feasibility.

Airports

Seattle's commercial airport is Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, locally known as Sea-Tac Airport and located in the city of SeaTac, which is named for the airport. It is operated by the Port of Seattle and provides service to many destinations throughout North America, Europe, and East Asia. The airport is a hub for Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary Horizon Air. Seattle is also a focus city for Northwest Airlines.

Seattle's general-aviation airport is Boeing Field. Southwest Airlines recently requested permission to move its services from Sea-Tac to Boeing Field but did not receive permission.

Street layout

Seattle's streets are laid out in a cardinal-direction grid pattern, except in the central business district: early city leaders Arthur Denny and Carson Boren insisted on orienting their plats relative to the shoreline rather than to true North, so streets meet at unusual angles where Denny's plat meets "Doc" Maynard's to the south and Boren's to the north. This inconsistency creates frequent confusion for visitors and newcomers when they attempt to navigate the streets at the edges of the business district. Largely as a result of Seattle's topography, only one street, one highway, and one freeway run uninterrupted entirely through the city.

Utilities

Unlike most neighboring cities, water and electricity are provided by public city agencies: Seattle Public Utilities and Seattle City Light. Privately owned utility companies serving Seattle are Puget Sound Energy (natural gas), Seattle Steam Company (steam), Qwest (landline telephone service), and Comcast (and to a lesser extent Millennium Digital Media) (cable television).

Medical centers and hospitals

Group Health Cooperative is a leading proponent and developer of managed care in the northwest, and the University of Washington is consistently ranked among the country's top leading institutions in medical research. Seattle has seen local developments of modern paramedic services with the establishment of Medic One in 1970.^[57] In 1974, a 60 Minutes story on the success of the then four-year-old Medic One paramedic system called Seattle "the best place in the world to have a heart attack".

Most of Seattle's hospitals are located on First Hill. Harborview Medical Center, the public county hospital, is the only Level I trauma hospital serving Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Swedish Medical Center, Providence Medical Center and Virginia Mason Medical Center are also located in this part of Seattle. This concentration of hospitals resulted in the neighborhood's nicknames "Pill Hill" and "Hospital Hill".

Located in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center is the pediatric referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has a campus in the Eastlake neighborhood and also shares facilities with the University of Washington Medical Center. Finally, in the University District is University of Washington Medical Center which, along with Harborview, is operated by the University of Washington.

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