Seattle Growth Podcast 4.3: Hendrix to hip-hop
What can Seattle’s rich musical past tell us about the future sounds that will emanate from our transforming city? In episode 3 of the Seattle... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.2: Footnotes of flannel
In the early 1990s, Seattle transformed from a quiet outpost in the soggy Northwest into an international music mecca on the crunching riffs of megabands... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast Season 4.1: Grunge brings fame, sparks innovation
In its first three seasons, the Seattle Growth Podcast has examined many facets of the city’s unprecedented transformation—housing, healthcare, redevelopment, preservation, transportation, education, emergency services,... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast Season 4: The past, present and future of Seattle music
While the stunning rise of Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, Nordstrom, PACCAR and a constellation of tech startups is the ultimate engine of Seattle’s unprecedented... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast Extra: music, arena wars and Seattle Center
Though the Seattle City Council will vote in early December on whether to approve redevelopment of Key Arena over a competing bid to build a... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.7: Seattle in progress?
In the third season of the Seattle Growth Podcast, host Jeff Shulman set out to better understand the city’s physical transformation—and the human impacts of... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.6: Is Seattle’s past paving its future?
As Seattle’s economic boom creates wholesale physical and cultural transformation, how are legacy civic policies and practices affecting the city it’s becoming? Episode 6 of... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.5: Leaving Seattle
The most visible evidence of Seattle’s seemingly unstoppable economic boom may be the legion of construction cranes that tower above every neighborhood. These myriad construction... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.4: What Seattle natives see
Seattle’s population has grown an astounding 15.4 percent since the start of the decade. For tens of thousands of newcomers to Seattle, this fast-growing city... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.3: The battle for Seattle
The faster that Seattle transforms economically, physically and culturally, the more this transformation seems inevitable. Change is inevitable. But growing ranks of Seattleites—developers, business owners,... Read More