Seattle, mostly Belltown

Here are some photos I took wandering around Seattle's Belltown neighborhood and a couple of other places one day. Belltown has a lot of great historic buildings, which until the recession hit, were being rapidly replaced by new hipster condo blocks. The place has a ton of potential, and is one of the big restaurant/bar/club areas of Seattle. But it could use some more people so that some of those neglected historic buildings get reused.









































This is Facebook's new Seattle headquarters, and its first office outside of Silicon Valley.


KIRO Television (CBS) Note the earthquake cross-braces added to the building later.












The Qwest building's brick facade is carved with scenes from Seattle's history.














Not taken from Belltown, but I took these the same day, so they're part of the same batch.






The McGuire building was only a few years old when the city condemned it earlier this year. The city says it's unsafe and could fall over at any second. The owners have their own experts who say it's not true. Either way, the people who lived there had just a couple of days notice from the city to GTFO. Now it's covered in scaffolding to protect people in case it starts coming apart the way the city predicts.