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Company town? In Seattle, some fret over Amazon's growth

In this photo taken Feb. 26, 2015, Monty Holmes poses atop a giant trophy on the roof of his family-owned trophy shop and in view of new construction all around him, one of the few remaining enterprises from South Lake Union’s days as a blue-collar neighborhood in Seattle. Notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, Seattle is booming once again. But the boom has also brought handwringing, as residents fret over whether Seattle has become a traffic-snarled city for the rich, overly dependent on the company behind it all: Amazon. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
In this photo taken Feb. 26, 2015, Monty Holmes poses atop a giant trophy on the roof of his family-owned trophy shop and in view of new construction all around him, one of the few remaining enterprises from South Lake Union’s days as a blue-collar neighborhood in Seattle. Notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, Seattle is booming once again. But the boom has also brought handwringing, as residents fret over whether Seattle has become a traffic-snarled city for the rich, overly dependent on the company behind it all: Amazon. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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