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The city of Seattle experienced protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and 2021. Beginning on May 29, 2020, demonstrators took to the streets throughout the city for marches and sit-ins, often of a peaceful nature but which also devolved into riots. Participants expressed opposition to systemic racism, police brutality and violence ...
Downtown Seattle is the largest employment center in the Puget Sound region, with an estimated employee population of 243,995 in 2013, accounting for half of the city's jobs and 21 percent of King County jobs. [ 12] Several Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Downtown Seattle include Amazon, Nordstrom, and Expeditors International.
SEATTLE - Seattle police arrested a man after a stabbing in downtown Seattle on Sunday.. At 5:19 p.m., officers were called to a fight involving three people at City Hall Park. When they arrived ...
Two major downtown projects, the IDX Tower (2003) and WaMu Center (2006), were completed during the early 2000s and were the first office buildings to be built since the Key Tower in 1990. [34] By the mid-2000s, office vacancies in Downtown Seattle improved to below 10 percent, but office developers were hesitant to break ground on new projects.
June 27, 2024 at 12:13 AM. SEATTLE - A man was arrested in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, accused of walking around and holding people at gunpoint. Police were called Saturday night ...
Seattle's beloved Bartell’s, now owned by debt-laden Rite Aid, is closing many of its locations. It's the latest symptom of a national health care crisis that hurts all of us.
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
The old Seattle Times building in downtown Seattle is on the National Register of Historic Places. Seattle's major daily newspaper is The Seattle Times. The local Blethen family owns 50.5% of the Times, [5] the other 49.5% being owned by the McClatchy Company. [6] The Times holds the largest Sunday circulation in the Pacific Northwest.