Located along the Puget Sound in the shadow of Mount Rainier, Seattle is known as both the "Emerald City" and the "Star of the Pacific Northwest." The fashionable locale offers Seattle corporate apartment renters a hip, urban environment influenced by outdoor style and activities. Once a thriving port town that served the timber industry, Seattle is famous these days for coffee and microchips. This medium-sized city is booming economically, growing and evolving at a rapid rate, with help from multinational corporations like Microsoft and Starbucks.
Researchers at Central Connecticut State University ranked Seattle the most literate city in America in 2005, and a United States Census Bureau survey showed that Seattle has the highest percentage of college graduates of any major U.S. city. Contributing to that census, was the fact that many major biomedical and technology companies moved into Seattle, which created a population increase of almost fifty thousand between the 1990 and 2000. Our Seattle corporate apartments are located close to a majority of the companies located in downtown and the suburbs: Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com, RealNetworks, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Boeing, Philips, Boston Scientific, ZymoGenetics and Amgen. Also, coffee companies founded in Seattle include Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee , and Tully's. Starbucks Coffee has been at Pike Place Market since the coffee company was founded there in 1971. There are also many successful independent artisanal espresso roasters and cafes.
To live like a local, you must become familiar with some of the famous Seattle landmarks while staying in your Seattle corporate apartment. Some classic Seattle weekend excursions are to the Space Needle, the Ferry , Smith Tower, Pike Place Market, the Fremont Troll, the Experience Music Project, the new Seattle Central Library, the Washington Mutual Tower, and the Columbia Center.
The city of Seattle has a reputation for frequent rain, however in reality, the so-called "rainy city" receives much less precipitation than New York City, Atlanta, and Houston and most cities of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Seattle's worldwide reputation for rain derives from the fact that it is cloudy (not rainy) an average of 226 days per year. In spite of the cloudy weather, this city offers our Seattle corporate apartment renters, opportunities for sailing, skiing, bicycling, camping, and hiking are nearby and accessible almost all the year.
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