Amazon anxiety hangs over boom-and-bust Seattle | Metro
By Staff Adjust Text Size By Staff The Associated Press Share this Article Wikimedia Commons Seattle is one of America's fastest-growing cities, but a boom-and-bust history lends an air of anxiety to the most recent boom. Seattle, notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, is booming once again. Thickets of yellow cranes have crowded the skyline, where new glass-sided office buildings, hotels and apartment towers blot out views of the mountains and the Space Needle. Food trucks dot the streets and young software engineers with disposable income fill the bars. But the boom has brought handwringing, as residents fret over whether Seattle has become a traffic-snarled city for the rich with soaring rental rates, overly dependent on the company behind it all: Amazon. The online retail giant has brought tens of thousands of workers to its campus in the South Lake Union neighbourhood,Read full article from Amazon anxiety hangs over boom-and-bust Seattle | Metro
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