Excavation for first Amazon tower to begin in June
Workers will start digging the foundation in June for the first phase of Amazon.com’s three-block high-rise complex in the Denny Triangle, a spokesman says, and the buildings should be finished by late...
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View ArticleLinda Mastro loses appeal on diamond rings worth $1.4 million
A federal judge has dismissed Linda Mastro’s appeal of a bankruptcy court’s ruling that two giant diamond rings belong to her husband’s numerous creditors. Linda Mastro lost her right to appeal when...
View ArticleFrench court: Mastros can’t be extradited if there’s jail ahead in U.S.
A French court ruled this week that former Seattle real-estate magnate Michael R. Mastro and his wife, Linda, can’t be extradited to the U.S. unless American authorities agree they won’t be imprisoned,...
View ArticleSeattle house prices slip in December
Seattle-area house prices slipped 0.5 percent in December after hitting a two-year high in November, according to the closely watched Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Only two of...
View ArticleBurien acts to part ways with Town Square partner
The Burien City Council has voted to dissolve its 10-year relationship with developer Harbor Urban and partner with another company to complete Burien Town Square, an ambitious public-private project...
View ArticleBellevue hotel site for sale
The developer of a proposed luxury hotel across the street from Bellevue’s Downtown Park has put the site up for sale. Hydra Developments of Bellevue is asking $5.75 million for the 0.35-acre property...
View ArticleSeattle’s historic Dexter Horton Building sold for $77M
Downtown Seattle’s historic Dexter Horton Building was sold Friday to Portland real-estate investment and development company Gerding Edlen for $76.6 million, according to county records. That’s about...
View ArticleTenants for Bullitt Center must think green
Tenants who want to lease space at what’s probably the greenest office building in the world have to do more than promise to pay their rent on time. The first ones began moving into the just-completed...
View ArticleArizona’s anti-gay bill harkens back to Jim Crow
Arizona’s odious anti-gay “religious freedom” bill would have exempted true believers from state anti-discrimination and other laws if they could argue that compliance would violate their religious...
View ArticleExcavation for first Amazon tower to begin in June
Workers will start digging the foundation in June for the first phase of Amazon.com’s three-block high-rise complex in the Denny Triangle, a spokesman says, and the buildings should be finished by late...
View ArticleDeveloper ready to build on downtown’s Greyhound block
Seattle developer R.C. Hedreen intends to break ground in about a year on an ambitious, two-tower project on the downtown Seattle block where the Greyhound bus station has stood for more than eight...
View ArticleLinda Mastro loses appeal on diamond rings worth $1.4 million
A federal judge has dismissed Linda Mastro’s appeal of a bankruptcy court’s ruling that two giant diamond rings belong to her husband’s numerous creditors. Linda Mastro lost her right to appeal when...
View ArticleFrench court: Mastros can’t be extradited if there’s jail ahead in U.S.
A French court ruled this week that former Seattle real-estate magnate Michael R. Mastro and his wife, Linda, can’t be extradited to the U.S. unless American authorities agree they won’t be imprisoned,...
View ArticleSeattle house prices slip in December
Seattle-area house prices slipped 0.5 percent in December after hitting a two-year high in November, according to the closely watched Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Only two of...
View ArticleBurien acts to part ways with Town Square partner
The Burien City Council has voted to dissolve its 10-year relationship with developer Harbor Urban and partner with another company to complete Burien Town Square, an ambitious public-private project...
View ArticleBellevue hotel site for sale
The developer of a proposed luxury hotel across the street from Bellevue’s Downtown Park has put the site up for sale. Hydra Developments of Bellevue is asking $5.75 million for the 0.35-acre property...
View ArticleSeattle’s historic Dexter Horton Building sold for $77M
Downtown Seattle’s historic Dexter Horton Building was sold Friday to Portland real-estate investment and development company Gerding Edlen for $76.6 million, according to county records. That’s about...
View ArticleTenants for Bullitt Center must think green
Tenants who want to lease space at what’s probably the greenest office building in the world have to do more than promise to pay their rent on time. The first ones began moving into the just-completed...
View ArticleExcavation for first Amazon tower to begin in June
Workers will start digging the foundation in June for the first phase of Amazon.com’s three-block high-rise complex in the Denny Triangle, a spokesman says, and the buildings should be finished by late...
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