Changing Fortunes Of Skyscrapers

Are skyscrapers back in favor with the public again?

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January 15, 2005, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"When Seattle's mayor said last week we should build new skyscrapers downtown, the idea got an extraordinary reaction. Nothing happened...

s there anyone left from old Seattle out there? The reason no skyscrapers taller than 45 stories have been built here in 15 years is that voters banned them by citizens' initiative in 1989...

...What a strange trip it's been. Not long ago skyscrapers were so distasteful we banned them. Now we want to live in them."

Thanks to Cascadia Scorecard Weblog

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