The city, which has sustained rapid tech growth, is looking for its next act
, coupled with the lingering effects of the pandemic, is shaking up Seattle in expected and unexpected ways. The city has staked much of its identity — not to mention its construction, housing and retail industries — on the rapid growth that propelled Amazon and Microsoft into trillion-dollar operations.
For decades it was known as “Jet City,” the birthplace of Boeing in 1916 and long the world’s biggest plane maker. But recession gutted its workforce in the 1970s — more thanthat a highway billboard erected in 1971 famously quipped: “Will the last person leaving Seattle — Turn out the lights.” Though it was actually messaging cooked up by two local real estate developers to entice investors, it symbolized the economic pressures the city was facing.
By early 2020 — just before the coronavirus pandemic took hold — Seattle was bursting at the seams. Builders were still redrawing the skyline and the city was magnetic, drawing an influx of new young professionals. Microbreweries and coffee houses popped up.
The pandemic years have been a roller coaster, said Marlo Miyashiro, owner of the Handmade Showroom, which carries artisanal cards, jewelry, stuffed animals and other wares. workers to be back at their desks three days a week starting in May — a big win for urban officials who had been pressing the company to bring their thousands of workers back to the office.
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