FederalWayan.com is a blog about Federal Way, Washington, started by a non-native who has lived here since early 2002. This was:

• back when the mall was still called a mall
• back when City Hall was at the corner of 336th and 1st
• back when there was a Deja Vu behind Taco Bell
• back when an REI was where Marlene’s is now
• back when Target was up above 316th
• back when Borders was right behind GENX
• back when GENX was a Good Guys
• back when the future Symphony site was an AMC (and open)
• back when FreeInternet.com still (barely) existed
• before the Community Center
• before Century Theaters
• before the Transit Center
• before the 317th HOV ramp

About Federal Way

Federal Way, Washington is a dense suburb of the Seattle-Tacoma metro area, nestled between them just north of the latter. The estimated population as of 2005 is around 80,000. It was founded in 1990 from a nebulous area betwen Des Moines, Kent, and Tacoma that had been called Federal Way as long as anyone dared to remember. Currently, many use the name Federal Way to refer to areas not within the city, and even into the closely associated suburban area of North Tacoma. The area got its name from the fact that U.S. Highway 99 ran through the area. Today, U.S. 99 is a state route (SR99), and Interstate 5 runs through the town, serving as its eastern boundary until 1994, when Weyerhauser added its wholly-owned corporate woodlands to the city’s dominion. The southwestern border of Federal Way is the King County-Pierce County line, which is also largely a border with Tacoma. The northwestern border is over 5 miles of Puget Sound coastline, of which barely a mile is publicly accessible.

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