Space Needle has a great effect on the society in Seattle. Space Needle is an important tower in Pacific Northwest, significant events like New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July are celebrated with spectacular fireworks at Space Needle. Annually, more than 20,000 people are gathered below the Space Needle to celebrate events together. According to Quadrant Homes, the company usually presenting New Years at the Space Needle, made the landmark one of the world’s tallest structure launching firework shows with effects originating from throughout the structure, including firing positions on the roof, 200-foot level, SkyLine Level, and elevator core, for a total of more than 70 launch locations on the 605-foot Space Needle. Many People in Seattle love …show more content…
According to Alsop Ronald’s view of Space Needle, its revenue is 10 million dollars to 25 million dollars annually. Space Needle earns money by an observation deck, the SkyCity revolving restaurant, meeting and banquet facilities, and the SpaceBase retail shop. According to Pamela Sebastian, she found a good opportunity for business to develop its economy with a regional flavor of souvenir of landmarks. She mentioned a gift shop in space needle is blooming. 1.3 million people visit Space Needle and Space Needle earns 5 million dollars to 10 million dollars as a revenue of Space Needle. According to Grassdoor, Space Needle requires 201 employees to 500 people to serve customers. It is a lot of workers because Space Needle have divided into many part of jobs like observation desk service, restaurant cooks, waiter, waitress, banquet facilities workers, retail shop seller etc._ Space Needle offers many jobs to people in Seattle and makes a lot of revenue from foreign visitors and visitors from other states. Space Needle helped to make other places successful as an attraction in Seattle, Space Needle brought many visitors to Seattle Center. Space Needle has located in the Seattle Center. According to Beyers, Seattle Center had been visited by 4.6 million people in 2005 and the place made 135 million dollars as a revenue from visitors by selling tickets of Space Needle, and admissions to performance or events that are occurred in the Seattle Center. Space Needle gets …show more content…
As I mentioned above, Space Needle was built very quickly. However, a surprising fact of Space Needle is that it is a really firm and stable building due to heavy underground cement foundation. Also, it has brought happiness to people’s life. Many people have visited Space Needle for different intentions. Some of them visit for anniversary or birthday or other happy events. Many of them visit for viewing a beautiful landscape of Seattle because it is a circular shape, so people can walk around deck and view beautiful landscape from different perspective. It also attracted many people to visit and Space Needle made a great revenue annually. Space Needle also hired many people in Seattle to serve Customers. There is no doubt that Space Needle brought positive effects to Seattle I choose Space Needle as my paper topic. Whenever I visit Space Needle, I usually saw a long line of ticketing booth. I thought the history of Space Needle goes back a long ways, but asked if there were still many who wants to visit the Space Needle. I wondered what changes Space Needle has brought to Seattle’s environment. I believe Seattle World’s Fair is the biggest reason of building Space Needle. Space Needle is absolutely a landmark and an icon that represent beautiful city
People predicted things about it, some predictions were false and some were true, but no matter who says what about the canal, both positive and negative impacts can be argued about the construction of this canal. The Erie Canal made an impact on many movements including but certainly not limited to the abolitionist movement, and the women's rights movement. This manmade water way also effected how people transported throughout the country. In fact, until the railroads were built, the Erie Canal was the fasted and most efficient way to travel and move goods around the country. In conclusion, the Erie Canal effected the united states positively, negatively, regardless of what people predicted would happen if this canal was
... “of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth” The space program fascinates the American people. In the early 1960s whenever space flights were launched during school hours students would gather in gyms and auditoriums to watch the lift offs on television. The race to the moon continued through the 1960s. It is one of the nations single most expensive projects of the decade, costing $56 billion.
The coast of Washington is rich with the history of early America. While much of the United States was still in its infancy, Washington was thriving with industry. Though the industry was large, the towns were just beginning to grow.
Starting with the better side the Erie Canal substantially impacted many economies across the New York state. “The Erie Canal is considered the engineering marvel of the 19th Century. When the federal government concluded that the project was too ambitious to undertake, the State of New York took on the task of carving 363 miles of canal through the wilderness with nothing but the muscle power of men and horses.” The canal changed the culture of more then 50,000 people as their lives become more revolved around a waterway system. Traveling on the canal by boat was a major change and exciting for many families as they were brought together at a cheaper cost, being able to spend more time with each other. For cities like New York City, traffic was improved greatly. “Within 15 years of the Canal's opening, New York was the busiest port in America, moving tonnages greater than Boston, Baltimore and New Orleans combined.” As for Buffalo, “freight r...
If there were about one million visitors this year, the park would make at least $8,000,000. Every dollar goes back to the park and its rangers. While that may be a nice stream of revenue, it does not even cover a fourth of the cost to restore the Everglades. The estimated cost of fully restoring the Everglades will total to around $10 to $14 billion and could take upwards of 15 years starting from the year 2015.
... line the canal today. The development of the railroad in the 19th century and the automobile in the 20th century sealed the fate of the Erie Canal.
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People from all around the world travel to the U.S. only to experience the great American national parks. According to the NPS 2015 Annual Visitation Summary Report, a total of 480,307,933 people visited national parks in the United States during 2015 both for recreational and non-recreational purposes. Ecotourism, an economic model that combines tourism with commerce, contributes to the maintenance of national parks and allows isolated small towns surrounding national parks to thrive. According to Frye and Nuest, in addition to the views, “these wonders of the Earth provide ample opportunities for visitors to hike, bicycle, climb, swim, horseback ride, and paddle” (PAGE NUMBER). Such activities contribute to the visitors’ experience and have resulted in great customer satisfaction (Roemer and Vasek 46). All of these activities, along with other further services such as lodging and dining, create income for national parks and local businesses, as well, as more employment opportunities for the people, working for both local business and at the national parks. The NPS website claimed that they employed approximately 22,000 permanent, temporary, and seasonal professionals. However, when the idea of commerce comes into play with the preservation of natural and historic sites, the danger to lose
Although the entire world is familiar with the City of Washington as the United State’s capital, the city was nonexistent when we became a nation in 1789. Thanks to the brilliant design of the French born engineer, Pierre Charles L’Enfant and his assistants Benjamin Banneker and Andrew Ellicot, our capital city that was once a swamp now is beautiful with many different parks, gardens trees, tall buildings and wide avenues.
According to the various residents of Seattle and their interviews conducted on the documentary known as Hype!, Seattle was a far off state with low temperature weather conditions where popular bands refused to hold concerts, which is why the locals made their own garage bands, produced their own songs and records and held concerts.
When a place like this is built, it shows the people that there is hope and that...
The bridge was designed at a time when America was moving toward streamline products, this included the design of bridges. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was a sleek, graceful looking suspension bridge. Suspension bridges consist of many cables anchored...
The current size, inherent values, and economic status of the United States owes greatly to the paramount figures and events that took place during the Early National Period of the country. However, while there is no doubt that such events- and the figures behind them- were of great importance and have molded the country into the pristine product that it is today, the various construction projects of that time have gone largely unnoticed. Canals, being one of the most prominent advances in transportation, are prime examples of forgotten catalysts of the American nation. The construction of canals- particularly the Erie Canal- during the 19th century played a key role in the geographic, economic, and cultural development of the country by
The Space Center was built in Florida for many specific reasons including climate and location (Matson 1). The rapid development of the Space program and the Kennedy Space Center significantly changed the development of the surrounding communities in various ways. The development of NASA and the Space Center was undoubtedly one of the most ambitious and influential undertakings of its time. The history behind the quick development of the space program has always been a little bit hazy and is unbeknownst to most people, and with good reason.... ...
Most of the revenue of 2013 has been brought by the Media Networks and Parks and Resort segments, bringing in 20.36 and 14.09 billion USD respectively. The other three segments, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive have brought 5.98, 3.86 and 1.06 billion USD respectively.