Seattle may already be home to a beloved burger chain in the form of Dick’s Drive-In, but the growing city will have to make room for another rising upstart as… Read More
Seattle’s new Alaskan Way tunnel — currently three years late and millions of dollars over budget — has been called the worst transportation investment in the entire United States. Now,… Read More
The Seattle City Council voted to increase building heights in the South Lake Union and downtown neighborhoods Monday. It’s the second upzone that South Lake Union has seen in the past five… Read More
Between the thousands of jobs Amazon adds each year and its insatiable appetite for office space in Seattle’s urban core, the company has come to symbolize the city’s radical and rapid growth and transformation.… Read More
A decade ago, Amazon began to transform a former industrial neighborhood into one of the nation’s top tech hubs. Now, it is doing the same in the neighboring area to… Read More
It’s not news that Amazon has wildly transformed Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood since moving there in 2008. Once an industrial district, the area has become a cluster of office buildings,… Read More
It’s been more than a year since Amazon opened its “Community Banana Stand” in Seattle and the program appears to be a hit. Amazon officially handed out its millionth banana… Read More
Social media giant Facebook is growing its presence in Seattle in a big way, leasing a pair of planned office buildings in the South Lake Union neighborhood, right in Amazon’s backyard.… Read More
We knew it was too good to be true almost instantly. The crinkled red paper, the low-resolution type, and the Amazon logo all reeked more of an ambiguous protest statement… Read More
Amazon, which originally started out of Jeff Bezos’ Bellevue, Wash., garage before permanently planting its flag in Seattle, is poised to open a huge new office in the city where it was… Read More
The architects and developers behind Google’s Seattle campus got the stamp of approval from a city design review board Wednesday for one of the buildings, pushing the project closer to starting… Read More
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 2001. Fifteen years later, Amazon now occupies 34 buildings and approximately… Read More
When we heard Amazon was planning to offer tours of its Seattle headquarters, we had to sign up. And apparently so did everyone else. The free tours, which began this month,… Read More
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 today. Despite criticism, CEO Jeff Bezos stands by the choice,… Read More
Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood has become a microcosm of the changes and challenges the city faces. Many see it as the symbol of the housing affordability crisis, as Amazon… Read More
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 neighborhood, a short distance from Amazon’s headquarters, the companies just announced.… Read More
After years of planning, Amazon will finally begin moving into its new campus near downtown next week. Construction on the entire project — which will consist of 4 million square… Read More
It sounded crazy last year when Amazon first announced plans to warm its new office towers in Seattle with recycled heat from a nearby data center. But now the company says it’s… Read More
Seattle-based Impinj is kicking off a new chapter today as the company, which was founded in 2000, is finally seeing its RFID technology grab mainstream attention. The company is celebrating… Read More
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 you can already see the massive buildings starting to take shape… Read More
We all know Amazon has an army of coders working away in offices behind that reflective glass around its Seattle headquarters, but now it turns out there’s a new job description… Read More
South Lake Union’s newest reported tenant isn’t a sexy new Ethan Stowell restaurant or an after-work watering hole for Amazonians — it’s rats. That’s right. According to this King 5… Read More
The silence was nearly deafening. After an hour-long panel discussion last week about some of the growing pains facing Seattle, an audience member by the name of Phyllis Lamphere took… Read More
The biodomes Amazon is planning for its new Seattle campus aren’t the only green aspects to the company’s expansion in the area. Amazon is moving ahead with a unique plan to… Read More
The Weyerhauser Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way has earned awards for its architecture, interior design and energy conservation. It’s a “gorgeous, gorgeous” building, Scott Wyatt tells me. There’s just one… Read More
Amazon.com is expanding its Seattle footprint yet again. Vulcan, the investment arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is planning to build two 12-story office buildings for Amazon’s South Lake Union… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More