Focus: Washington; A Lure for Canadian Dollars
October 22nd, 2006This growing community is a geographic oddity - an isolated patch of the State of Washington that clings to the tip of a peninsula attached to the Canadian mainland.
Now, it and several other relatively isolated and sparsely populated communities in the northwest corner of Washington are the focus of major development.
Catering to a mostly Canadian market, developers are building condominiums, several upscale resorts and shopping malls.
Why all the interest in north Whatcom County, the American border region with a population fo 117,000, or less than 10 percent of the population of the greater Vancouver area? Real Estate agents say the American
Now, it and several other relatively isolated and sparsely populated communities in the northwest corner of Washington are the focus of major development.
Catering to a mostly Canadian market, developers are building condominiums, several upscale resorts and shopping malls.
Why all the interest in north Whatcom County, the American border region with a population fo 117,000, or less than 10 percent of the population of the greater Vancouver area? Real Estate agents say the American