Northgate

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Northgate (vehicle rental company)

Northgate plc (LSE: NTG) is a vehicle rental company headquartered in Darlington, County Durham. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

History

Northgate was founded by Alan Noble in 1981 when he established Noble Self Drive in Darlington. In 1986 Northgate Motor Holdings was established to acquire the Darlington, Newcastle upon Tyne and Stockton on Tees operations of the Group. In 1987 the business was acquired by Goode Durrant, a conglomerate, which changed its name to Northgate plc in 1999.

In 2002 the Company acquired 40% of Furgonetas de Alquiler SA, a Spanish vehicle rental business, and has since exercised an option to buy the remainder.

In 2005 Arriva sold its UK-wide vehicle rental business to Northgate for £129 million.

Operations

The Company owns a number of businesses which provide commercial vehicle services to business under several trading names. Outside the UK its most important market is Spain, where it has a wholly owned subsidiary called Furgonetas de Alquiler SA (FUALSA).

Northgate, Seattle

Northgate is an informal, district of neighborhoods in north urban Seattle, Washington named for and surrounding Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in the United States. Its east-west principal arterials are NE Northgate Way and 130th Street, and its north-south principal arterials are Roosevelt Way NE and Aurora Avenue N (SR 99). Minor arterials are College Way-Meridian Avenue N, 1st, 5th, and 15th avenues NE.Interstate 5 runs through the district. Besides the eponymous mall, the most characteristic distinctions of the area are North Seattle College (NSC), the south fork of the Thornton Creek watershed, and the Sheikh Abdul Kadir Idriss Mosque, also known as "Sheikh Idriss Mosque" or "Islamic Idriss Mosque".

History

Prehistory

What is now Northgate has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 BCE—10,000 years ago). The Dkh^w’Duw’Absh, People of the Inside and Xacuabš, People of the Large Lake, Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish native people had used the Liq'tid Springs area as a spiritual health spa. They harvested cranberries from the Slo’q `qed (SLOQ-qed, bald head), an 85 acre (34 ha) marsh and bog at what is now the NSCC car park, Interstate 5 interchange, and Northgate Mall. Large open areas for game habitat and foraging (anthropogenic grasslands) were maintained in what are now these neighborhoods by selective burning every few years. Today the Native American descendants are represented by the Duwamish tribe.