Mike Lewis
Bellevue’s tech boom draws Amazon, Apptio and major firms as city positions itself as Seattle alternative
Bellevue has become a major tech hub attracting companies like Amazon, Apptio, T-Mobile, Smartsheet, OfferUp and Icertis thanks to its downtown, livability, low crime and business-friendly policies, with major expansions including Amazon’s plan to employ 25,000 there.
CityBldr launches Public demo using zoning data from 100 U.S. cities to map public land and housing potential
Bellevue-based CityBldr has launched a free demo site, Public, that uses its five-year-built zoning and land database covering 100 U.S. cities to map underutilized publicly owned parcels and estimate how many people each could house under current zoning. The company plans a sponsorship program for corporations to fund affordable-housing nonprofits in exchange for full access to the complete dataset.
