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 3.6: 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
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.2: Real estate developers and the future of Seattle
How do real estate developers view their reshaping of Seattle’s skyline and street life? Episode 2 of the Seattle Growth Podcast, Season 3, visits two... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 3.1: the human impact of the city’s transformation
As people and money flow into Seattle like never before, the city is undergoing a massive physical transformation. Building projects proliferate in every neighborhood; the... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast Extra: Can Seattle become a hockey town?
Playing on Seattle’s dramatic growth, two competing groups are proposing the creation of a new world-class sports and entertainment arena, one by renovating Key Arena... Read More