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Amazon is the biggest fish yet caught by South Lake Union.   

The echoes of rumor have become solid fact. Last Friday, December 22nd, Amazon.com announced that it will move its corporate headquarters to Seattle’s South Lake Union (current headquarters shown above).

Founder of the Urban Renaissance Group Patrick Callahan, predicts more residential and retail development in response to this huge concentration. More people, especially Amazon’s employees, are bound to want to live and shop here now that the mother hen has chosen this as her roost.

The city estimates that this move could bring 6,000 Amazon employees into the South Lake Union neighborhood.

Public open space and courtyards will be a feature of this new development, said Vulcan, and all buildings will be conventiently located within a block of access to the new South Lake Union Streetcar.

The current plan calls for 11 new buildings to be built by developers Vulcan and Schnitzer West. The leased space from these buildings may cover as much as 1.6 million square feet. The buildings will reside along Boren Ave N and Terry Ave N between John and Mercer. Construction of the first four buildings for this project begins in January 2008.  Completion date for all 11 buildings is planned for 2010 or 2011.

For more details, check out the Seattle Times Article.

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