It's impossible to look at Seattle and not see Martin Selig. His eponymous real estate company has been erecting buildings there for nearly six decades-mosdy high-end high-rises. Two of his most impressive projects: the glassy aeries downtown on Fifth Avenue called Fifth & Jackson and Fifth & Yesler. (He also built and owned the 76-floor Columbia Center-the city's tallest building when completed in 1985-before selling it for $354 million in 1989.) He still owns all of Martin Selig Real Estate and its 4 million square feet of office space ("When I see it, I go after it," he says). With an Amazon-fueled commercial real estate boomlet, Selig is developing an additional 1.5 million square feet and is now worth an estimated $1.1 billion.
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