Latest / Sal on I-405 Northbound: Tukwila to Lynnwood
Exit 10 — Smokestacks to Wireless
Sal: Between exits ten and eleven. Sal: Factoria Boulevard leads into south Bellevue's commercial hub. When promoters platted the townsite in 1911, they named it Factoria and promised coal smoke belching from hundreds of smokestacks. Peggy: Belching smokestacks as a civic sales pitch. Sal: The factories never arrived. In 1927 an abandoned plant was converted to process rabbit meat and fur, before the area was annexed into Bellevue in 1993. Sal: Today the six-tower Newport Corporate Center stands beside the freeway, occupied primarily by the headquarters of T-Mobile USA. Peggy: They promised…
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