Bryan Copley remembers “the day that the last single-family residence in South Lake Union was bulldozed.”
The CityBldr CEO has lived in the same Seattle neighborhood Amazon calls home for about four years. He has watched South Lake Union transform to keep pace with Amazon’s rapid growth, a metamorphosis that is far from complete. “I can see 13 cranes from my deck,” says Copley.
Two or three years ago, Copley was walking down Republican Street when he witnessed the razing of a house. He hasn’t seen a single-family home in the neighborhood since.