After years of planning, the Washington State Convention Center updates and construction are officially underway, as an 11-story addition will be added to “the sprawling cite of the Convention Place Station at the north portal of the downtown transit tunnel.” The $1.7 billion project is one of the biggest developments to be embarked upon in Seattle, and as Puget Sound Business Journal outlines, it is expected to “create up to 6,000 union construction jobs and hundreds of apprenticeships.”

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