Burien’s eclectic downtown features a July 4th parade, Farmers Market, Art Walks and seasonal festivals, which generate year round excitement.
Burien is a 100-year-old community with a rich and diverse heritage. Its 31,000 residents see Burien as a friendly place with well-established neighborhoods that welcome new citizens while encouraging small town values. Seattle magazine in 2005 rated Burien one of the region area’s top 10 neighborhoods for quality of life.
Burien is in the process of rebuilding and reinventing itself. In 2002, downtown’s major arterial received a facelift with widened sidewalks, benches, landscaping and old-fashioned lampposts. Work began in 2007 on Burien Town Square, a $200 million public-private partnership in the heart of the City that will reshape central downtown into a public plaza surrounded by a new city hall and regional library, condominiums, retail stores and office space.
Pedestrian-friendly, Burien has fine parks, 6 miles of saltwater shorelines and a large public beach. The city is easy to reach being only 5 minutes from Sea-Tac Airport and 15 minutes from downtown Seattle by two nearby freeways and reliable public transportation.
Burien’s downtown serves a large segment of the South King County population. As a major retail center, the city center boasts a working winery as well as a microbrewery. For more than 70 years, Burien has been noted for boutique retail, professional personal services, and a large number of ethnic restaurants that attract diners from near and far. Burien’s international cuisine originates in Australia, China, El Salvador, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. Burien’s inviting downtown features a July 4th parade, Farmers Market, Art Walks, excellent local theater and seasonal festivals, which generate year-round activity excitement.
Old Burien, the historic town center, is bustling with new development, including the soon-to-be-built Highline Heritage Museum, serving the 150,000 residents of the greater Highline area.
Many of Burien’s neighborhoods enjoy sensational views of the Cascades, Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier and the Olympics. Housing ranges from starter homes to high-end homes, condominiums and apartments of all sizes, including senior apartments. Residents take pride in their neighborhoods, preserving their saltwater accesses and beaches, while protecting the appearance of their streets, parks and other public places. The Highline School District, which serves Burien and adjacent cities, enjoys strong public support and is opening several new schools this decade.
A well-kept secret is the high concentration of state of the art innovative medical services that attract regional attention and international reputations. Creative, friendly, caring personal medicine, as practiced in Burien, is a community asset which is giving the city the reputation as a “wellness center” destination with extensive career and training opportunities.
Come visit Burien, an engaging community that’s quickly becoming a cool place to work and call home!
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