SEATTLE - The loggers who Seattle a center of the national timber industry are long gone. And only a few wooden landmarks of the timber heyday, mostly churches, still exist on the low-slung skyline of Ballard, the neighborhood once known as Shingleton.
But as concerns over climate change give new life to wooden building design, that could change.
In the coming years, Ballard will be home to Seattle`s first tall building built almost entirely from wood. Rising eight stories from the current Ballard Blossom florist on Market Street will be a hotel built principally from cross-laminated timber, or CLT - durable panels made from binding layers of wooden planks with adhesive.
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