Cranes, cranes, and more cranes

[Dottleshead ★]

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SEATTLE (AP) — Surveyors say Seattle is the crane capital of the country for the third year in a row after construction in the city rebounded from a lull earlier in the year.

The Seattle Times reports 65 cranes loom over Seattle which is 25 more than the next U.S. city.

Surveyors at Rider Levett Bucknall count cranes in big cities throughout the world every six months and say the number of cranes in Seattle had dropped from about 60 to 45 six months ago as an unusually high number of projects wrapped up at the same time.

But now the number is up with the most cranes they've seen in Seattle since they began counting them in 2014.

Cranes in the suburbs weren't counted, but Bellevue officials reported 14 cranes.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2018-07-18/seattle-tops-nation-for-third-year-with-65-tower-cranes

 

Great news if your thing is the economy.  Not so good if your thing is reasonable cost of living.  It's been going like this for as long as I can remember... before the kept official stats for that matter.  The secret of Seattle is gone and that's too bad.  We're going to be like Page's backyard Bay Area. I hate it actually.

[Page Turner]

...I thought this was going to be a birding thread.

 

[Ralphie ★]

Now that we covered that I am thinking Hogan's Heroes.

[Ralphie ★]

I hope they inspect the cranes for rust.

[smudge ★]

5 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...I thought this was going to be a birding thread.

 

Me too.

[Kirby]

I thought it was going to be an origami thread.

[Ralphie ★]

10 hours ago, Kirby said:

I thought it was going to be an origami thread.

You mean like the big lake they call origami?

[Ralphie ★]

Thanks for the like for the weak pun, Kirby.

 

[Dottleshead ★]

I really like that this thread has spiraled into nothingness.