Buffalo, New York’s Data-Driven COVID-19 Strategy
As public officials across the country consider when and how to open their economies, the city of Buffalo, New York, is taking a data-driven approach to inform how it flattens the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seattle’s newest skyscraper is a towering achievement
Sandwiched between billion-dollar transportation projects and high-end apartments, commercial development in Seattle’s downtown core is skyrocketing. But given the inevitability of a seismic event in the Puget Sound region, the towers that make up Seattle’s skyline need to withstand shakes and quakes of all magnitudes. For the 44-story F5 Tower — where the networking company…
Seattle tear-downs mapped: Ballard is the epicenter of change
The city of Seattle has issued 2,083 demolition permits for single-family or duplex properties since 2012. Year by year, no other neighborhood in Seattle has been as torn down and built up as Ballard. As the city’s population continues growing and the housing market remains fierce, homebuilders say Seattle residents need to recognize the demand…
The $1 million boostrappers
Alissa Leinonen didn’t think her business would last a year, let alone break $1 million in revenue. Gourmondo started in 1996 as a four-table lunch spot in Pike Place Market, sandwiched between a tattoo parlor and a cobbler. On a good day they made $60. “I was grinding on this thing for eight or nine years…
The other 1 percent
The Puget Sound region’s fast-growing technology industry is full of companies hungry for funding, but much of those investments will not go to women entrepreneurs. All-women teams received just $22.1 million of the $1.79 billion of venture capital dollars invested in Washington state last year, according to data from PitchBook Inc. That’s 1.2 percent of…
Skilled labor is in short supply as remodeling permits surge in Seattle
The number of remodel permit applications is trending toward a five-year high, stoking demand for skilled labor that’s already in short supply.
Seattle small businesses owners’ big ideas
Ali Ghambari knows what it feels like to have a competitor with almost unlimited resources right next door. In the land of Starbucks, Ghambari owns 10 Cherry Street Coffee House locations around Seattle. For Ghambari and more than 574,000 other small businesses in Washington state, competition is only one of many challenges they face. The…
Cash is king: Seattle’s housing market is demoralizing, but not irrational
Seattle’s housing market has been called many things — “berserk,” “insane,” “unhealthy,” “demoralizing” — and yet there’s one moniker everyone can agree upon: The Seattle housing market is red hot. Transactions and sales volumes are down, but competition is soaring to the point that nearly one-in-five sales is an all-cash deal in King, Pierce and…
Canlis family’s military history took them from chow hall to wine cellar
One of the last people to sit at Table 36 was a young airman who called Canlis from overseas to make a reservation for himself and a date. He had saved up to buy her a dress and take her out while he was home on leave. He wanted her to know how much he…
Which Seattle small businesses are in developers’ crosshairs
Yasuko Connor doesn’t really want to talk about why her teriyaki shop on Broadway closed after more than twenty years. “Employees were not honest,” she said, “business was declining so I sold the building.”
‘55,000 people have seen me naked:’ A story of ‘revenge porn’ and the lawyers who are trying to stop it
The story how an emerging cyber crime is affecting the lives of hundreds of women in Washington state.
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