anons - former seattleanon here
born and raised there well before MS and amazon days
in keeping with the Q raising the question of fires making way for public projects
there was an article about "how amazon swallowed seattle" and it raised red flags
years ago there was a plan called seattle commons - to take a huge corridor of north downtown to underused lake union and create seattles own central park
none other than paul allen was behind this but it failed - hmmmmmm
by that time however allens vulcan development had acquired most of the land for that "public project" now worth billions - cuz…
guess where amazon HQ is anons? coincidence?
sauce below
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-30/how-big-tech-swallowed-seattle
http://gawker.com/how-amazon-swallowed-seattle-1724795265