Edmonds WA is using federal grant money to showcase a section of town that is full of immigrant owned businesses. This will help the businesses and the whole region. DP
Immigrants hope Snohomish County's first International District will show what they add to America
By Krista J. Kapralos and Bill Sheets, Herald Writers
HeraldNet.com: There is more Korean than English on signs in the strip malls along a stretch of Highway 99.
News racks are stocked with Korean-language newspapers. Schools teach from Chinese-language children's books.
A Japanese man hawks a water filter developed in Osaka. "The water is clean," said Katsuya Fukuhara. "You won't get sick."
A Vietnamese woman offers beauty supplies for Asian-owned nail salons far and wide.
"My clients drive all the way from Renton and even Tacoma," Thuy Le said. "They like it up here."
A wave of immigrants have brought their cultures with them.
Edmonds has taken notice.
The city is using a federal grant to designate a mile-long stretch of the highway as an International District, the first in Snohomish County.
The money will be spent directing shoppers and tourists to the stretch of highway between 238th Street SW and 224th Street SW. The idea is to help businesses extract more sales tax dollars from the neighborhood.
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