Editing Cascade, Seattle (section)

=== 1980s ===
As the local economy strengthened in the late 1980s, Cascade's cheap land and central location began to attract new uses. The northwest corner of the neighborhood became the campus of the [[Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center]]<ref name=Fiset /> and at the north tip of Cascade, the old City Light Steam Plant (a decommissioned electrical generation facility) became the headquarters of Zymogenetics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zymogenetics.com/news/steam-plant.html |title=ZymoGenetics' Steam Plant Facility: A Brief History. Zymogenetics |access-date=2008-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509075358/http://www.zymogenetics.com/news/steam-plant.html |archive-date=2008-05-09 }}.</ref> [[Gentrification]] had begun. Although a proposal to transform a north–south corridor just west of Cascade into a {{convert|74|acre|ha|adj=on}} park was twice defeated by the voters (in 1995 and in 1996), gentrification continued apace, largely driven by tech billionaire and developer [[Paul Allen]]'s Vulcan Northwest group.<ref name=Fiset />