Nov-2017

196 197 BOTHELL, WASHINGTON Bothell, WASHINGTON IN PERFECT BALANCE O riginally populated by the Native American Sammamish people, the area in Washington State that officially became the City of Bothell in 1909,was, for many years a center for the logging industry, then a farming community, and then a bed- room suburb for people working in nearby Seattle.Today, the municipality of some 44,000 that straddles both King and Sno- homish Counties has a booming biotech and biomed sector. It is also home to two institutions of higher learning–Cascadia College and the University of Washington -Bothell. In 2010, the City of Bothell launched a major downtown redevelopment program to include the demolition of 15 buildings, moving State Route 522, expanding the Bothell–Everett Highway into a multiway boulevard, expanding a city park and build- ing a newCity Hall. All this while concurrently re-imagining the type of urban structures and amenities that would transform the city’s essential character fromwhat it was to what it AT A GLANCE BOTHELL, WASHINGTON WHAT: A city of 44,000 WHERE: In King and Snohomish Counties, Washington WEBSITES: www.ci.bothell.wa.us