Seattle Silicon Central IT Gentrification
Freakin' Tekkies, take a hike!
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" We want to deliver milk to your door, we know where you live ... " - amazon.com
Seattle the Downtown Transit Tunnel The southbound portal at Westlake station
Technical Albion of the North:
The Seattle space needle near Amazon Headquarters
The thriving tech industry is changing Seattle, and not everyone is happy about it. Despite a small number of 700,000 inhabitants, Seattle is an important financial and technological center of the United States. It is from here that the technological giants Boeing, Starbucks and Microsoft begin. More companies have chosen this city for their representations and headquarters. Among them are "Amazon", "Valv", "Nintendo" and others.
Amazon Spheres of Influence
Seating areas are seen inside the Amazon.com Inc. Spheres in Seattle. Amazon unveiled its Seattle Rainforest Offices after seven years of planning and construction.
The glass orbs have 40,000 plants from around the world. Ventilation ducts are placed on a wall of plants to pump in fresh air and simulate natural breezes inside. A staircase leads to four levels inside. Water mists from a wall of plants.
Lounge chairs are set for employees at upper levels.
In 2018, Amazon built a futuristic park, which is a biosphere of three huge balls. Each of the structures has a glazed steel frame, inside of which are office spaces and a tropical garden of several hundred plants.
Amazon is a company with established anti-union bona fides, a spotty environmental record, and one of the world’s fiercest capitalists-Jeff Bezos-as CEO. It’s creating a massive footprint in a labor and environmentalist stronghold, a city that just elected a socialist to its city council, who campaigned on taking Amazon and Microsoft into “democratic public ownership to be run for public good, not private profit.” If you're looking for a job, contact them: https://www.aboutamazon.com/
New construction at Amazon's complex in Seattle. The company said it is pausing construction on a new high-rise building while it awaits the outcome of a city proposal to tax worker hours to raise about $75 million a year for affordable housing and homelessness services. (Elaine Thompson / AP)
Mary's Place, a shelter for homeless people, supported by Amazon and other Seattle companies, in the middle of Amazon headquarters campus. To be included in a new Amazon building.
More than 70 construction cranes are at work in downtown Seattle, many to support Amazon Headquarters expansion
Denny triangle Amazon expansion in Seattle
"Amazon Go" storefront at Seattle Headquarters neighborhood
Amazon Fresh delivers fish from Pike Place Market, online mixes with traditional retail in Seattle
Heavy afternoon traffic in the neighborhood of Amazon's Seattle headquarters
Seattle Rainforest Offices http://fortune.com/2018/01/29/amazon-spheres-rainforest-offices-photos/
Welcome to Lake Union, home of the Amazon
In 1963 a motor bridge was built on Lake Washington. After 50 years, it became unusable, and in 2011 the city authorities approved the design of the pontoon bridge, which was supposed to replace the old structure. Construction of the facility was completed in 2013. The bridge has six automobile lanes, separate tracks for cyclists and pedestrians, and an additional section for the construction of a future narrow-gauge railway line.
Runners cross the I-90 floating bridge in the express lanes during the Seattle Marathon on Dec. 1, 2013
Park Freeway Tunnel Network
The Manhattan of Seattle: Lake Union (Lake Union) - the main "platform" of the floating castles of Seattle. Seattle is located on a land strip between the Pacific Gulf and Lake Washington. To date, Seattle has more than 200 high-rise buildings.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct cutting off downtown from the waterfront calling for a waterfront revitalizatoin
Lake Union in the distance between new apartment complexes, near Amazon headquarters, Seattle
Looking south from Ray Moore Bridge, Hwy 99 traffic is slow heading toward Downtown and Amazon campus area, Seattle
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Tour-Amazon-Seattle-HQ-Photos-448011513.html
Seattle City at Night
What’s happening in San Francisco further down the coast, to some observers, is old-school class warfare. Tech workers stand accused of pricing people out in droves and gentrifying areas at whiplash speed. A few rising young tech execs have stirred the pot, publicly describing the city’s poor as “degenerates” and “trash,” mocking the city’s women as unattractive, and generally acting obnoxious and entitled. Tensions have gone from smoke to fire in recent months. Activists now regularly blockade the private buses that tech workers take to Silicon Valley. They’ve thrown rocks at them and even protested outside the homes of tech execs. A group calling itself the Counterforce has taken credit for some of the most aggressive actions. Flyers popped up around South Lake Union in Seattle 2012 that labeled many Amazon workers as rude “Am-Holes.” In February 2014, a handful of Counterforce activists blocked a Microsoft bus on Capitol Hill and a streetcar in South Lake Union used by Amazon employees. They held up banners featuring slogans such as “Gentrification Stops Here” and passed out flyers accusing the two companies of a wide range of offenses, such as driving the creation of boring high-rise apartments (“the bland architecture of conspicuous consumption”) and higher costs of living. For those who can afford it, people talk about how well the real estate market is doing in Seattle, almost all of that downtown, in the city itself, is due to Amazon's presence. Good for developers, bad for average citizens.
Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Marshall’s Beach, Presidio of San Francisco, in March 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge
Pacific Northwest - Amazon expands Vancouver Canada Tech Hub, adding 3,000 high-tech jobs
To mark the company’s latest investment in Canada, Amazon welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to an event with its Vancouver employees, at the site of its future 416,000 square foot Development Centre in Vancouver.
https://www.amazon.jobs/location/vancouvervictoria-canada
Seattle skyline across the lake
Thank You and Goodnight!
.
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" We want to deliver milk to your door, we know where you live ... " - amazon.com
Seattle the Downtown Transit Tunnel The southbound portal at Westlake station
Technical Albion of the North:
The Seattle space needle near Amazon Headquarters
The thriving tech industry is changing Seattle, and not everyone is happy about it. Despite a small number of 700,000 inhabitants, Seattle is an important financial and technological center of the United States. It is from here that the technological giants Boeing, Starbucks and Microsoft begin. More companies have chosen this city for their representations and headquarters. Among them are "Amazon", "Valv", "Nintendo" and others.
Amazon Spheres of Influence
Seating areas are seen inside the Amazon.com Inc. Spheres in Seattle. Amazon unveiled its Seattle Rainforest Offices after seven years of planning and construction.
The glass orbs have 40,000 plants from around the world. Ventilation ducts are placed on a wall of plants to pump in fresh air and simulate natural breezes inside. A staircase leads to four levels inside. Water mists from a wall of plants.
Lounge chairs are set for employees at upper levels.
In 2018, Amazon built a futuristic park, which is a biosphere of three huge balls. Each of the structures has a glazed steel frame, inside of which are office spaces and a tropical garden of several hundred plants.
Amazon is a company with established anti-union bona fides, a spotty environmental record, and one of the world’s fiercest capitalists-Jeff Bezos-as CEO. It’s creating a massive footprint in a labor and environmentalist stronghold, a city that just elected a socialist to its city council, who campaigned on taking Amazon and Microsoft into “democratic public ownership to be run for public good, not private profit.” If you're looking for a job, contact them: https://www.aboutamazon.com/
New construction at Amazon's complex in Seattle. The company said it is pausing construction on a new high-rise building while it awaits the outcome of a city proposal to tax worker hours to raise about $75 million a year for affordable housing and homelessness services. (Elaine Thompson / AP)
Mary's Place, a shelter for homeless people, supported by Amazon and other Seattle companies, in the middle of Amazon headquarters campus. To be included in a new Amazon building.
More than 70 construction cranes are at work in downtown Seattle, many to support Amazon Headquarters expansion
Denny triangle Amazon expansion in Seattle
"Amazon Go" storefront at Seattle Headquarters neighborhood
Amazon Fresh delivers fish from Pike Place Market, online mixes with traditional retail in Seattle
Heavy afternoon traffic in the neighborhood of Amazon's Seattle headquarters
Seattle Rainforest Offices http://fortune.com/2018/01/29/amazon-spheres-rainforest-offices-photos/
Welcome to Lake Union, home of the Amazon
In 1963 a motor bridge was built on Lake Washington. After 50 years, it became unusable, and in 2011 the city authorities approved the design of the pontoon bridge, which was supposed to replace the old structure. Construction of the facility was completed in 2013. The bridge has six automobile lanes, separate tracks for cyclists and pedestrians, and an additional section for the construction of a future narrow-gauge railway line.
Runners cross the I-90 floating bridge in the express lanes during the Seattle Marathon on Dec. 1, 2013
Park Freeway Tunnel Network
The Manhattan of Seattle: Lake Union (Lake Union) - the main "platform" of the floating castles of Seattle. Seattle is located on a land strip between the Pacific Gulf and Lake Washington. To date, Seattle has more than 200 high-rise buildings.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct cutting off downtown from the waterfront calling for a waterfront revitalizatoin
Lake Union in the distance between new apartment complexes, near Amazon headquarters, Seattle
Looking south from Ray Moore Bridge, Hwy 99 traffic is slow heading toward Downtown and Amazon campus area, Seattle
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Tour-Amazon-Seattle-HQ-Photos-448011513.html
Seattle City at Night
What’s happening in San Francisco further down the coast, to some observers, is old-school class warfare. Tech workers stand accused of pricing people out in droves and gentrifying areas at whiplash speed. A few rising young tech execs have stirred the pot, publicly describing the city’s poor as “degenerates” and “trash,” mocking the city’s women as unattractive, and generally acting obnoxious and entitled. Tensions have gone from smoke to fire in recent months. Activists now regularly blockade the private buses that tech workers take to Silicon Valley. They’ve thrown rocks at them and even protested outside the homes of tech execs. A group calling itself the Counterforce has taken credit for some of the most aggressive actions. Flyers popped up around South Lake Union in Seattle 2012 that labeled many Amazon workers as rude “Am-Holes.” In February 2014, a handful of Counterforce activists blocked a Microsoft bus on Capitol Hill and a streetcar in South Lake Union used by Amazon employees. They held up banners featuring slogans such as “Gentrification Stops Here” and passed out flyers accusing the two companies of a wide range of offenses, such as driving the creation of boring high-rise apartments (“the bland architecture of conspicuous consumption”) and higher costs of living. For those who can afford it, people talk about how well the real estate market is doing in Seattle, almost all of that downtown, in the city itself, is due to Amazon's presence. Good for developers, bad for average citizens.
Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Marshall’s Beach, Presidio of San Francisco, in March 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge
Pacific Northwest - Amazon expands Vancouver Canada Tech Hub, adding 3,000 high-tech jobs
To mark the company’s latest investment in Canada, Amazon welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to an event with its Vancouver employees, at the site of its future 416,000 square foot Development Centre in Vancouver.
https://www.amazon.jobs/location/vancouvervictoria-canada
Seattle skyline across the lake
Thank You and Goodnight!
.