South Lake Union, a buzzy, fast-rising horseshoe wrapping the bottom of the eponymous sparkling lake just north of downtown Seattle, is a slice of Silicon Valley in the Pacific Northwest. Which means an area once known for warehouses, rusty fishing vessels and the transient populace that prefers such environs is now home to Amazon.com’s new headquarters, various Microsoft campuses and the University of Washington Medicine complex. But where SLU differs from Menlo Park is the fact that it’s wrapped by urban Seattle, which means the play definitely outnumbers the work. The big freshwater lake in the heart of it all tends to put things in perspective.
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Originally published in BC Living, October 2014.
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