Seattle Boomtown

In this photo taken on Feb. 10, 2015 with a fisheye lens, Torsten North, a project foreman for Turner Construction Company, talks on his phone at the top of a 238-foot high construction crane working on a new building in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. Seattle, notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, is booming once again with new construction projects and the hiring of a large number of workers by Amazon.com and other companies. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)