The issues on 3rd Ave are certainly a major factor, but I doubt it's Amazon's only one. Since the Tax Amazon campaign started in Seattle, Amazon has been planning up to move out - or at least to make it clear to the Seattle city council that they could.<p>(Because the last time this came up I was misunderstood, the intent of this comment is to expand thinking beyond merely taking press releases at face value)
Dupe, discussed several times in the last 5 days from various sources:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30674661" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30674661</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668442" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668442</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635654" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635654</a>
"In order to address the issues plaguing the area, the Seattle Police Department set up a mobile precinct at the intersection and increased its number of patrolling bike cops."<p>As usual they apply a carceral response that doesnt address any of the underlying causes of violence...