Industrial District, Seattle, Washington

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) cite web
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See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
(5) Shenk, Polack, Dornfield, Frantilla, Neman (2002).]

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. [Phelps (1978), Chapter 15, "Annexation", pp. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map key table pp.222-3.] 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. [cite web
year =2007
url =http://www.historicseattle.org/preservationseattle/neighborhoods/defaultjuly2.htm
title =Preservation South of the Stadiums
publisher =Preservation Seattle
accessdate=2007-05-24 ]

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. [cite web
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[http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps/plan.pdf High-Resolution Version] , PDF format, 16.1 MB
[http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps/planweb.pdf Medium-Resolution Version] , PDF format, 1.45 MB 12 January 2004.
[http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps/planwebsmall.pdf Low-Resolution Version] , PDF format, 825 KB 12 January 2004.
[http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps/arterialslegend.pdf "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: [http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps.htm#pdfnote "Street Classification Maps, Note on Accessing These PDF Files"] ] ]

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. [Dailey (map with village 33, referencing his footnotes 2, 9, and 10)] The "Dkh^w’Duw’Absh" and "Xacuabš" [(1) (spelling per cite web
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Includes bibliography.] ("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, [After historical epidemiology 62% losses due to introduced diseases.] 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. [(1) Anderson & Green (2001-05-27)
(2) Lange (2000-10-)
(3) Dailey (2006-06-14)
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Puget Sound Native Art and Culture
(5) Boyd (1999)]

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.Fact|date=October 2007

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.Fact|date=February 2007

Some current industrial business owners are concerned about the future of the Industrial District. [cite web
title = SODO Business Association Home Page
url = http://www.sodobusinessassociation.org/
accessdate = 2007-05-25 ] 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. [cite web
title = "SoDo rezone pits industry against developers"
url = http://www.djc.com/news/re/11137644.html
publisher = "Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce"
date=2002=09-26
accessdate = 2007-05-25 ]

See also

Notes and references

Bibliography

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Page links to Village Descriptions Duwamish-Seattle section [http://coastsalishmap.org/Village_Descriptions_Duwamish-Seattle.htm] .
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" [http://coastsalishmap.org/start_page.htm] .
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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 [http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/neighborhoods/resources.htm] ), 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 [http://www.cityofseattle.net/CityArchives/] .
Complete detail of sources (with links) for Shenk et al is at Seattle neighborhoods#Informal districts and # Bibliography

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