View Single Post
  #9  
Old Posted Feb 24, 2012, 10:56 PM
mhays mhays is offline
Never Dell
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 19,748
Either way, Amazon's additional 3,000,000 sf of offices in Downtown, in addition to their current 3,000,000 sf either Downtown or in nearby SLU, is bigger. Less press, less showy, but way more important. That's room for 15,000 more employees. Add the jobs multiplier and everyone's families, and that sort of (potential) employment growth would support population growth of 60,000 at least. And how about a big company doing it with high rises? It's even bigger than Microsoft's new spaces in 3.6 Downtown Bellevue highrises in the last boom.

As for basketball culture, we support it more than a lot of other cities. The Sonics had poor turnout under the carpet bagger than took the team, but it was generally decent or even excellent otherwise. And we certainly play the game, unlike hockey, which seems to be played mostly by transplants at a suburban rink or two and is never seen in the street. Quite a few Seattle kids have been making the NBA lately.
Reply With Quote