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The Seattle Seahawks football team plays its home games at CenturyLink Field (formerly called Qwest Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood.

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Seattle is called a Seattleite.

Seattle’s Space Needle is 184 meters (or 604 feet) high.

Nirvana frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27 in a room above the detached garage of his home at 171 Lake Boulevard East in Seattle’s Denny-Blaine neighborhood. A suicide note was found nearby and an investigation concluded he died three days prior on April 5th, 1994 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to his head. Cobain’s wife, Courteney Love, subsequently had the garage demolished and sold the property, located next to Viretta Park, in 1997.

Snoqualmie Casino does not have a hotel. There is a Hampton Inn five minutes away in Snoqualmie, and motels in nearby North Bend.

The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge had the same location as the present day westbound bridge spanning the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and Gig Harbour, Washington. Aerodynamic factors caused a substantial collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in November 1940, just four months after opening. The new bridge, opened in October 1950, was a complete replacement, only utilizing the original bridge’s concrete piers and cable anchorages. In 1997, a third bridge was built alongside the existing bridge to carry SR 16 eastbound traffic to Tacoma.

Reality TV star Gabe Rygaard was killed in a car accident on US-101 near Port Angeles, Washington on September 16th, 2016, aged 45. Rygaard had previously appeared on seasons two through nine of the History Channel’s reality TV show Ax Men which chronicled the activities of his family-owned logging business.

The capital city of British Columbia is Victoria on Vancouver Island.

The nearest hotels to the Abbotsford Centre are the Best Western Bakerview Inn and the Super 8 by Wyndham which are neighbouring hotels located 2.5 kilometres away (5 minutes by car or 30 minutes on foot) on Sumas Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia.