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Pick a city, any city: Here’s what Amazon workers said, or didn’t say, about final HQ2 hopefuls

Midwest charm. Southern hospitality. East Coast bravado. Don’t expect any of those geographic personality traits when you’re attempting to ask… Read More

The rapid rise of new Seattle: Time-lapse video shot over 3 years captures city’s massive growth

Here’s the 4-minute video you’ve been waiting for to illustrate why a 4-mile drive in Seattle takes 45 minutes. Ricardo… Read More

‘These are my people!’ Bulletproof’s brain-boosting butter coffee comes to the heart of Amazonia

In 2017, it’s still possible in coffee-saturated Seattle to open a coffee shop to great fanfare. Bulletproof, the Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More

Go fish! Google and Facebook sites in Seattle will rank among world’s most salmon-friendly buildings

One needn’t be a card-carrying environmentalist to know that it’s a bad thing for salmon to go belly up before… Read More

Burger chain Shake Shack coming to Seattle with restaurant in the heart of Amazon’s campus

Seattle may already be home to a beloved burger chain in the form of Dick’s Drive-In, but the growing city… Read More

Three numbers explain why the tech boom doesn’t make Seattle’s new tunnel a good investment

Seattle’s new Alaskan Way tunnel — currently three years late and millions of dollars over budget — has been called… Read More

Seattle votes to upzone South Lake Union and downtown (again)

The Seattle City Council voted to increase building heights in the South Lake Union and downtown neighborhoods Monday. It’s the… Read More

Amazon’s real estate chief: ‘What we’re trying to do the most is be good neighbors’

Between the thousands of jobs Amazon adds each year and its insatiable appetite for office space in Seattle’s urban core, the company… Read More

Aerial photos show transformational effect of Amazon’s downtown Seattle campus

A decade ago, Amazon began to transform a former industrial neighborhood into one of the nation’s top tech hubs. Now,… Read More

Amazon and nonprofit FareStart team up to launch job training through five new restaurants in Seattle

It’s not news that Amazon has wildly transformed Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood since moving there in 2008. Once an… Read More

Amazon gives out 5,000 bananas a day in Seattle

It’s been more than a year since Amazon opened its “Community Banana Stand” in Seattle and the program appears to… Read More

Facebook leases big Seattle office project from Paul Allen’s Vulcan, continuing rapid growth

Social media giant Facebook is growing its presence in Seattle in a big way, leasing a pair of planned office… Read More

Amazon bringing In-N-Out Burger to Seattle? Getting to the bottom of this mysterious sign

We knew it was too good to be true almost instantly. The crinkled red paper, the low-resolution type, and the… Read More

Amazon expanding outside Seattle with giant new Bellevue office lease

Amazon, which originally started out of Jeff Bezos’ Bellevue, Wash., garage before permanently planting its flag in Seattle, is poised to… Read More

Google architects take inspiration for new Seattle building from well-made suit

The architects and developers behind Google’s Seattle campus got the stamp of approval from a city design review board Wednesday for… Read More

Amazon isn’t done growing: Here’s how much space the tech giant expects to occupy in Seattle by 2022

Amazon’s Seattle presence totaled about 640,000 square feet when John Schoettler, director of global real estate and facilities, started with the company in… Read More

What it’s like to take Amazon’s new Seattle headquarters tour

When we heard Amazon was planning to offer tours of its Seattle headquarters, we had to sign up. And apparently so… Read More

Amazon partners with Seattle non-profit to create homeless refuge on company site near downtown

Amazon’s rapid expansion north of downtown Seattle has sparked a debate over the tech giant’s impact on the city that still rages on… Read More

More than half of South Lake Union tech workers live outside of Seattle, Zillow finds

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood has become a microcosm of the changes and challenges the city faces. Many see it… Read More

Google to move to new 4-building complex in Amazon’s backyard in Seattle, developed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. investment company will develop four six-story office buildings for Google in Seattle’s South Lake Union… Read More

Amazon to begin move into new Seattle campus next week, with rooftop dog park and indoor basketball court

After years of planning, Amazon will finally begin moving into its new campus near downtown next week. Construction on the… Read More

Inside look: Amazon ready to start warming office towers with recycled data center heat in Seattle

It sounded crazy last year when Amazon first announced plans to warm its new office towers in Seattle with recycled heat from… Read More

Impinj debuts redesigned logo, moves into new HQ as company celebrates 15 years

Seattle-based Impinj is kicking off a new chapter today as the company, which was founded in 2000, is finally seeing… Read More

Aerial photos show Amazon’s epic biospheres taking shape in Seattle

Amazon says the sphere-shaped structures it’s building as a centerpiece for its new urban campus in Seattle won’t open until 2017, but… Read More

Amazon will employ a full-time horticulturalist for its new plant-filled Seattle biodomes

We all know Amazon has an army of coders working away in offices behind that reflective glass around its Seattle headquarters,… Read More

South Lake Union’s latest tenant taking over the neighborhood? Rats

South Lake Union’s newest reported tenant isn’t a sexy new Ethan Stowell restaurant or an after-work watering hole for Amazonians… Read More

Who is going to lead Seattle? City seems absolutely stumped as growing pains take toll

The silence was nearly deafening. After an hour-long panel discussion last week about some of the growing pains facing Seattle,… Read More

How Amazon’s new Seattle office buildings will recycle ‘waste heat’ from nearby data centers

The biodomes Amazon is planning for its new Seattle campus aren’t the only green aspects to the company’s expansion in the… Read More

The Amazon model: 4 reasons your company should move to the heart of the city

The Weyerhauser Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way has earned awards for its architecture, interior design and energy conservation. It’s a… Read More

Amazon’s rapid expansion in Seattle continues with two more 12-story office buildings

Amazon.com is expanding its Seattle footprint yet again. Vulcan, the investment arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is planning to… Read More