Gets Real: Exploring Filipinotown is Seattle’s CID

Seattle’s International District is well known for Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon.

But at the center, you’ll also find Filipinotown — and it’s been there for more than 100 years!

“ [In the] 1920s to 1980s, we had 88 Filipino-owned and operated businesses here. We catered to the primarily the first-generation Manongs who came here,” said Cynthia Mejia Giudici, with the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)…

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