Skyway has a small-town-feel with some space between houses and big lots with trees that gave the feel of "almost like you're out in the country." It's close to everything, the airport, downtown, Southcenter, Lake Washington. It's also an affordable place to live. And it's an increasingly diverse community. Skyway, which, with its companion neighborhoods Bryn Mawr and Lakeridge, makes up West Hill, a sort of unincorporated doughnut hole between Seattle, Renton and Tukwila. Skyway residents have Seattle addresses, but they send their kids to Renton schools. On a map Skyway looks like more suburbia between three cities, yet residents can regularly see such rural scenes as horses grazing in a lot along a busy street or hear roosters crowing. Perched as it is atop a ridge between Interstate 5 and Lake Washington, Skyway boasts some spectacular views of water and mountains, but most of its homes are stolid post-World War II construction. Its plate-of-spaghetti road system doesn't put the community on the route to anywhere else. With no signature parks, widely recognized landmarks or trendy shopping district, Skyway barely registers in the regional consciousness. Businesses include Skyway Park Bowl and Casino, The Basket Case restaurant (specialty of the house: 15 varieties of milkshakes); the pharmacy chain A&H Stores Inc., and JJ's Java. One sign of the flavoring that diversity brings can be found at Black River High School, where students in the King County Work Training Program spend the morning in the classroom studying English as their second language, then get outside in the afternoon to work in the garden and learn more about horticulture. "It's kind of a sleepy little town area,"
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