About 100 protesters gathered at Seattle's Denny Park and then marched on Amazon.com Inc. South Lake Union headquarters Tuesday evening to protest what they say is the online retailer's low corporate tax rate. According to a report from Citizens Tax Ju... »
Metropolitan Grill in downtown Seattle is known as a classic steakhouse. It also offers 640 Washington wines to its customers and that number helped it win the Washington Wine Commission’s award for 2012 Wine Restaurant of the Year. Other winners named... »
Washington state business leaders are joining together to create a new organization dedicated to ending human trafficking in this region. The group – Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) – is holding a launch party Tuesday, March 27, at 6 p... »
Seattle’s Goodman Real Estate and the newly formed Harbor Urban LLC will break ground next month on a 24-story, 249-unit apartment tower at 1915 Second Avenue in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, the companies said in a release. Goodman and Harbor Urban... »
Helped by the $160 million sale of its headquarters Fisher Plaza, Fisher Communications Inc. reported fourth-quarter diluted earnings of $3.71 per share. With the sale figured out, Seattle-based Fisher (NASDAQ: FSCI), owner of KOMO-TV and KOMO Radio, r... »
The biannual grubfest is about to begin. March means it’s once again Dine Around Seattle time. Dine Around Seattle is a promotion involving 46 area restaurants. From Sunday nights through Thursdays in March they offer three-course dinners for $30, usua... »
Revitalization Partners LLC, the receiver for Skyway Luggage Co., has sold the luggage maker’s office building at 2501 Western Ave. to Music Group Services U.S. Inc. in Bothell for $2.1 million. Prominent Seattle businessman Henry “Skip” Kotkins put th... »
Fisher Communications Inc. has completed its sale of Fisher Plaza near the Space Needle in Seattle to Hines Global REIT Inc. of Texas for $160 million. Fisher will remain the 300,000-square-foot facility’s largest tenant, with a 12-year lease for its c... »
A Canadian investment adviser has paid $19.1 million to purchase three Pioneer Square buildings that were put in foreclosure in September, including the iconic Grand Central Building on First Avenue South. On its website, Vancouver-based Nicola-Crosby ... »
Seattle philanthropists Jon and Mary Shirley donated $2 million to Cornish College of the Arts toward a planned visual arts complex, Cornish President Nancy Uscher said Wednesday. The center will be the new home for the college’s sculpture program and ... »
