A lot of suburbs around Seattle have growing downtowns. State basically law requires it.
Bellevue is obviously the biggest:
Could you (or anyone else) elaborate?
I'm referring to the
Growth Management Act. In addition to regulating new sprawl, it requires existing cities to accomodate a certain amount of growth. Since many are already built out, they have to build denser. In the suburbs (and Seattle, for that matter) it is politically popular for municipalities to focus growth in their "downtowns" and town centers, usually replacing light commercial or light industrial uses with higher density mixed use developments, while preserving existing single family neighborhoods.
