Seattle – Part of the Next Big Tech Corridor?

Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. are two nearly identical cities in the Pacific Northwest. We’re both eco-conscious, have similar weather patterns, and are creating exceptional technologically-based economies. Vancouver has more in common with Seattle than it does with any of its other Canadian cities even though they are separated by an international border and 140 miles of roads.

Leaders on both sides of the Canadian-U.S. border are taking advantage of the connections. According to The New York Times, Microsoft – currently in need of global engineering talent – is expanding their Vancouver offices, “partly because of Canada’s smoother immigration process.” Alternatively, “Vancouver wants to bring more American technology companies to the city in hopes of spinning out future entrepreneurs” who could expand its smaller base of tech companies.

At the Cascadia Conference in Vancouver last month, officials and executives from both cities discussed both future plans and those currently in place to deepen the technological ties between the two. There were conversations over more globalization and education, research collaboration between the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington, and even ways to maneuver and improve the traffic between Seattle and Vancouver.

All of this technological innovation on our coast bodes well for housing in the Puget Sound region. Our area has so many strengths economically, geographically, and socially, so it is no wonder that our growing technological companies are ready to expand and add more. Some details of this growth are still being discussed and planned. However, it seems as though both Seattle and Vancouver are poised to take over as the leading tech center for the west coast in the near future.

Find out more information on the growing tech corridor between Seattle and Vancouver in the original article from The New York Times.