The Secret to Seattle’s Booming Downtown
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
In a blog post on The Atlantic Cities website, urban scholar Richard Florida discusses downtown Seattle’s growth since the 1990s. The city has encouraged the long-term growth of its core through large-scale infrastructure investments and encouraging downtown retail. Nevertheless, the area was heavily affected by the recession, and lost 12 percent of its jobs between 2000 and 2010.
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"A 2000 study by Paul Sommers and Daniel Carlson found nearly half of all high-tech jobs in the Seattle region were located downtown. Today, Seattle provides a good example of the back-to-the-downtown trend that is reshaping cities across the United States as workers relocate to formerly neglected urban cores that offer transit, walkability and central location."
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