Industrial District, Seattle, Washington
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The Industrial District is the principal industrial area of Seattle, Washington. It is bounded on the west by the Duwamish Waterway and Elliott Bay, beyond which lies Delridge of West Seattle; on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which lies Beacon Hill; on the north by S King and S Dearborn Streets, beyond which lie Pioneer Square and southwest International District of Downtown; and on the south by the main lines of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, or about S Lucille Street, beyond which is Georgetown. SoDo is the name of the northwest portion of the neighborhood, named for its being South of Downtown. SoDo is the location of Safeco Field and Qwest Field, respectively homes of the Seattle Mariners and Seattle Seahawks and of the former Kingdome.
The Industrial District may also be defined by land use, with the primarily residential and open space Delridge district extending west from W Marginal Way SW and south of SW Spokane Street, and with the heavy industrial-zoned lower Duwamish Waterway east of Marginal and north of Spokane as part of the Industrial District.[1]
Most of the Industrial District is built on what was once the mudflats and lowlands of Elliott Bay and the Duwamish estuary, dredged, staightened, and filled 1902 and 1907.[2] Much of the area is also built on landfill which is prone to liquefaction. This makes buildings in this area highly prone to earthquake damage.[3]
Principal arterials are 1st and 4th avenues S, the Alaskan Way Viaduct, East Marginal and Airport ways S (north- and southbound); and S Spokane, the Spokane Street Viaduct, West Seattle Bridge, and S Royal Brougham Way (east- and westbound). Minor arterials are 6th Avenue S, S Holgate and S Lander streets, and S Industrial Way.[4]
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[edit] History
What is now Seattle has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). For example, the villages of tohl-AHL-too ("herring house") and later hah-AH-poos ("where there are horse clams") at the then-mouth of the Duwamish River in what is now the Industrial District, had been inhabited since the 6th entury C.E.[5] The Dkhw’Duw’Absh and Xacuabš[6] ("People of the Inside" and "People of the Large Lake", now the Duwamish tribe) of the Lushootseed (Whulshootseed, Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish nations inhabited at least 17 villages in the mid-1850s,[7] living in some 93 permanent longhouses (khwaac'ál'al) along Elliott Bay, Salmon Bay, Portage Bay, Lake Washington, Lake Sammamish, and the Duwamish, Black, and Cedar rivers.[8]
In 1905 the Seattle Box Company relocated to the southeast corner of 4th Avenue S and S Spokane Street becoming one of the first residents of the Industrial District.[citation needed]
Starbucks moved its world headquarters to the Industrial District in 1997, occupying the 1912 building constructed for Sears, Roebuck and Company (now Sears Holdings Corporation, 2005) as a catalog distribution center, another early, prominent business.[citation needed]
Some current industrial business owners are concerned about the future of the Industrial District. [9] The area is seen by some city developers as an ideal zone in which to expand non-industrial businesses and residential land use south of Downtown Seattle.[10]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ (1) "Greater Duwamish". HistoryLink Neighborhoods (n.d.). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
(2) "Delridge". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg dated c. 2002-06-15). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
(3) "South Portion of City". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg dated c. 2002-06-15). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg 17 June 2002. [xor] Maps "NN-1120S", "NN-1130S", "NN-1140S".Jpg [sic] 13 June.
(4) "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services". Information Services. Seattle City Clerk's Office (Revised 2006-04-30). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
(5) Shenk, Polack, Dornfield, Frantilla, Neman (2002). - ^ Phelps (1978), Chapter 15, "Annexation", pp. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map key table pp.222-3.
- ^ Preservation South of the Stadiums. Preservation Seattle (2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
- ^ "Street Classification Maps". Seattle Department of Transportation (2005). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
High-Resolution Version, PDF format, 16.1 MB
Medium-Resolution Version, PDF format, 1.45 MB 12 January 2004.
Low-Resolution Version, PDF format, 825 KB 12 January 2004.
"Planned Arterials Map Legend Definitions", PDF format. 12 January 2004.
The high resolution version is good for printing, 11 x 17. The low and medium resolution versions are good for quicker online vewing. [Source: "Street Classification Maps, Note on Accessing These PDF Files"] - ^ Dailey (map with village 33, referencing his footnotes 2, 9, and 10)
- ^ (1) (spelling per Lakw’alas (Speer, Thomas R.), editor (2004-07-22). "Chief Si’ahl" (DOC). "Chief Si’ahl". Duwamish Tribe. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Includes bibliography. - ^ After historical epidemiology 62% losses due to introduced diseases.
- ^ (1) Anderson & Green (2001-05-27)
(2) Lange (2000-10-)
(3) Dailey (2006-06-14)
(4) "The people and their land". Seattle Art Museum (c. 2003-07-04 per per "Native Art of the Northwest Coast: Collection Insight"). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Puget Sound Native Art and Culture
(5) Boyd (1999) - ^ SODO Business Association Home Page. Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
- ^ "SoDo rezone pits industry against developers". "Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce" (2002=09-26). Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
[edit] Bibliography
- Anderson, Ross; Green, Sara Jean. "A culture slips away", Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By, The Seattle Times, 2001-05-27, p. 1. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
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Ibid.. "'The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees.'", Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By, The Seattle Times, 2001-05-27, p. 2. Retrieved on 2006-04-21. - Boyd, Robert (1999). The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press and University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-295-97837-6 (alk. paper), ISBN 0-7748-0755-5.
- Dailey, Tom (2006-06-14). "Duwamish-Seattle". "Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound". Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Page links to Village Descriptions Duwamish-Seattle section [1].
Dailey referenced "Puget Sound Geography" by T. T. Waterman. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives, mss. [n.d.] [ref. 2];
Duwamish et al vs. United States of America, F-275. Washington DC: US Court of Claims, 1927. [ref. 5];
"Indian Lake Washington" by David Buerge in the Seattle Weekly, 1-7 August 1984 [ref. 8];
"Seattle Before Seattle" by David Buerge in the Seattle Weekly, 17-23 December 1980. [ref. 9];
The Puyallup-Nisqually by Marian W. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. [ref. 10].
Recommended start is "Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound" [2]. - Lange, Greg (2000-10-15). "HistoryLink Essay: Seattle and King County's First White Settlers". HistoryLink.org Essay 1660. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
- Phelps, Myra L. (1978). Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department. ISBN 0-9601928-1-6.
- Shenk, Carol; Pollack, Laurie; Dornfeld, Ernie; Frantilla, Anne; and Neman, Chris (2002-06-26, maps .jpg c. 2002-06-15). "About neighborhood maps". Seattle City Clerk's Office Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk, Information Services. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods] and other agencies [3]), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives [4].
Complete detail of sources (with links) for Shenk et al is at Seattle neighborhoods#Informal districts and # Bibliography
