[SFUVancouver]

This is fantastic news for Seattle. Couple Amazon's plan to build a significant amount of downtown office space with the company's already-large downtown office population and you have a major driver of growth and vibrancy. The knock on effect of having a large and growing tech company downtown will reap incredible benefits for Seattle. I am more than a little envious that Seattle has Amazon driving office growth. In Vancouver, the current round of office construction is driven by pension funds and Telus (telco/internet/wireless) which are building new office buildings for law firms and Telus' new downtown HQ. Those are critically important tenants but they won't spin off new companies like Amazon will/does. Well done Seattle! (and what a contrast to Apple building their mothership in the suburbs)