An Amazon hotel: Developer wants to fill vacancy on company’s Seattle campus

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Guests of Amazon employees might soon have a convenient place to spend the night. The Seattle Times reports that San Francisco-based developer Stanford Hotels filed early paperwork to build a 15-to-16 story hotel right smack dab in the heart of Amazon’s South Lake Union campus. The hotel would demolish and replace the Bio-Rad Systems’ lab building at 300 Terry… Read More…

What type of city do you want to live in? Creating a sense of ‘place’ in Seattle

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I’ve lived in Seattle for a long time now — almost achieving native status after my 18 years. And during that time, nothing has struck me in the city as much as the total transformation of the neighborhood of South Lake Union — an amazing phenomenon that has truly accelerated in the past few years… Read More…

Amazon.com workers get a new unflattering nickname in their hometown: Am-holes

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Perhaps no Seattle neighborhood has undergone as radical a transformation in such as short period as South Lake Union.  And that transformation is largely being driven by the arrival of Amazon.com, which moved its headquarters from the lonely streets of Beacon Hill to the middle of the city last year. But — as can be… Read More…

Job growth exceeds estimates in Seattle’s booming South Lake Union neighborhood

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On a recent summer afternoon, Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is buzzing with activity. Amazon. com employees line up at a popular burrito truck to grab a quick bite, and at a nearby coffee shop entrepreneurs chat about their next move. Given the energy, it is a bit hard to imagine that the neighborhood was… Read More…

South Lake Union goes ‘green,’ gets 24 EV charging stations

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Driving through Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood yesterday, I passed by the Propel biodiesel fueling station. I was struck by two things: The high-cost of the fuel, and the fact that there wasn’t a car in sight. At the time of its opening, it marked the first biodiesel fueling station in downtown Seattle. Now, Vulcan,… Read More…

Amazon employees need to eat, so Cactus plans massive restaurant in South Lake Union

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Amazon.com’s arrival in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is bringing thousands of geeks to the once run-down neighborhood. And those developers, engineers and marketing gurus will need to eat, so some of Seattle’s best known restaurants are setting up shop in the neighborhood. The latest arrival is Cactus, which plans to open a massive 5,000… Read More…