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April 12, 1996
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Convention Center redux will add ‘high-touch’ complement

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April 12, 1996
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Expect to hear more and more about tourism as a “high-touch” complement to “high-tech: in the Seattle area’s economic strategy. In contrast to the specialized skills typically required in the computer and software fields, tourism provides jobs at many skill levels. This part of our future is found in such projects as the Bell Harbor International Conference Center that opens Read More ›

USA, Washington, Seattle. The Sail-in parade of the Bell Street Pier Classic Rendezvous.

^{Bruce Chapman
October 13, 1995
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Bell Street Pier project a jewel in Seattle Port crown

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October 13, 1995
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The Port of Seattle's tax rates over the last five years have declined by 33 percent, while its revenues have increased by 34 percent. Incorrect numbers were published in Bruce Chapman's column last Friday on the port's new Bell Street project. Somehow, the Bell Street Pier, a multipurpose, $88 million creation of the Port of Seattle, has managed to go through the whole development process, right up to the interior work now under way, without raising the ire of any economic interest, environmental body or taxpayer watchdog group. But already little bands of potential users are lining up to get a hard-hat tour of a civic facility that is sure to attract international attention. Ordinary folks are beginning to ask about it, too. When a class of fifth graders from the "TOPS" program at Seward School on Capitol Hill walked down to a parking lot above the site recently, they were given a description of the project that left them reporting back like the legendary blind man who encountered an elephant. Each one had a different impression of the beast. Read More ›

^{John Hamer and Bruce Chapman
May 2, 1993
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Six Solutions for Seattle – Global City or Just Another Town?

_{John Hamer and Bruce Chapman
May 2, 1993
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METROPOLITAN Seattle - from Everett to Tacoma and from Puget Sound to the Cascade foothills - in the past decade has become a true international "Citistate," to use the term coined by syndicated columnist Neal R. Peirce. A Discovery Institute project, "International Seattle: Creating a Globally Competitive Community," is aimed at helping the region define a new strategy for increasing its international competitiveness. With the help of a 24-member advisory board and a host of volunteers, we have conducted interviews throughout the region and studied a dozen other cities' international programs. It was a breakthrough in 1990 when community-wide response to international concerns led to the creation of the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. The "TDA" pulled together resources from the city of Seattle, King County, the Port of Seattle, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and organized labor, with a stated goal of making this region "one of North America's premier international gateways and commercial centers." Read More ›