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Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
By Bill Richards
Both the Maine sale and some Seattle real estate put on the market fail to meet their goal of closing in 2008. This could produce a very tough January for the local daily.
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Posted Wed, Dec 24, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
An international movement to change the ethic of growing cities seems right for the Northwest. But we'd have to check the boom-town impulses embedded both in our growth economy and our frontier DNA.
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Posted Fri, Dec 19, 5:07 p.m.
By Bill Richards
Meanwhile, two other ways for the struggling company to raise cash, by selling Maine papers and Seattle real estate, are still hanging fire.
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Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
The pressure for real estate and the short-term perspective of fancy Wall Street financial instruments have changed the old line companies utterly.
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Posted Wed, Dec 10, 6 a.m.
By Jonathan Weber
As resorts for the wealthy such as Yellowstone Club, Tamarack, and Promontory tumble into insolvency, you have to wonder what the lenders such as Credit Suisse and Lehman Bros. were thinking. Here's another tale of toxic assets, poor diligence, and no backup plans.
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Posted Mon, Dec 8, noon
By Daniel Jack Chasan
The Puget Sound Partnership has an Action Agenda, but so far no Answer Agenda. Here are some tough questions.
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Posted Fri, Nov 21, 5 a.m.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
The Puget Sound Partnership has produced its draft action agenda, tempered by the fiscal realities of the coming Legislature. It locates the real challenge: how we treat the land around the Sound.
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Posted Fri, Nov 14, midnight
By Benjamin Lukoff
A forum on the financial crisis settles some jitters about what lies ahead but leaves more questions than answers.
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Posted Fri, Nov 14, midnight
By Ted Van Dyk
A breakfast meeting the other morning sponsored by Real Change sounded a lot like a rally to dump Mayor Greg Nickels and, for that matter, much of the Seattle City Council.
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Posted Wed, Oct 29, midnight
By Peggy Sturdivant
Does rating higher than the rest of the country really make Seattle the top real estate market?
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Posted Wed, Oct 22, midnight
By Knute Berger
Critics of Seattle's Pike Place Market ballot measure think the Market should be ruled by the market.
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Posted Thu, Oct 16, 4:19 p.m.
By Bill Richards
The company has been trying to sell the Blethen Maine Newspapers chain since March.
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Posted Wed, Oct 15, 2 a.m.
By John Hoole
How an obsessed faction of residents drives the politics of an entire Seattle neighborhood.
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Posted Wed, Oct 8, 2 a.m.
By Francesca Lyman
A Seattle-area developer and local governments have teamed up to build townhouses that, in theory, will give back more energy than they use. Will that work? It will depend in part on who lives in them.
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Posted Tue, Sep 30, noon
By David Brewster
Campaign contributions by a builder association, used to campaign against Gov. Chris Gregoire, have prompted a state attorney general's investigation, and that could mean bad headlines for GOP challenger Dino Rossi.
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Posted Thu, Sep 25, 1 a.m.
By David Brewster
The state House speaker finally goes public with a dramatic idea for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct on Seattle's waterfront. It involves a long, block-wide structure with a highway within, commercial development below, and an intriguing park on top.
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Posted Fri, Sep 19, 4 a.m.
By Knute Berger
Mossback becomes enamored with a city he once regarded with disdain and considers what it would be like to move there. It reminds him of pre-1970s Seattle, before the yuppies ruined it.
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Posted Sun, Sep 14, 4 p.m.
By Jonathan Hiskes
A new minister lays plans for revitalizing Seattle's First United Methodist Church, temporarily homeless after moving from a crumbling downtown landmark. Saving mainline downtown churches is far from easy, but Rev. Sanford Brown thinks he has a formula, derived from serving the Belltown neighborhood.
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Posted Thu, Sep 11, 3 a.m.
By Peter Steinbrueck
An architect and former City Council member argues for compact urban design, but not at the expense of livability. Density doesn't have to be a dirty word.
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Posted Tue, Sep 9, 11 p.m.
By Knute Berger
As Mayor Greg Nickels moves to close a tree-cutting "loophole," it's time for a complete rethink of Seattle's rules and regulations regarding trees. And we better act fast.
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Posted Mon, Dec 29, noon
2008
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Knute Berger
A Washington Post story indicates that after a major multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar effort, there's little or no progress in saving Chesapeake Bay.
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Posted Fri, Dec 26, noon
2008
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David Brewster
Greg Nickels got Northgate development unstuck by blowing up the entrenched sides. But is that the best way to make friends? Or to clear icy streets?
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Posted Wed, Dec 10, 2:42 p.m.
2008
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Floyd McKay
Imagine Seattle's waterfront as bare land, then start planning.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 8:54 p.m.
2008
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Knute Berger
Seattle considers new, and over-due, limits of tree-cutting on private property.
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Posted Mon, Dec 1, 6 a.m.
2008
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David Brewster
Well, maybe not that. But his scheme for a park atop a Viaduct has an exciting counterpart in New York City that is proving a magnet for starchitects.
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Posted Fri, Nov 14, midnight
2008
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Peter Lewis
The City Council has decided not to pursue a more aggressive program of inspecting rental housing.
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Posted Mon, Oct 20, 9:31 a.m.
2008
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David Brewster
If we're never going to figure out what to do with it, maybe we should turn the Viaduct District into a funky, low-rent zone of urban grit?
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Posted Wed, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
2008
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Knute Berger
Restoring ancient habitat in the Willamette Valley.
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Posted Fri, Oct 10, 1 p.m.
2008
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Clark Fredricksen
You may have read in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this morning that Republican gubernatorial challenger Dino Rossi could escape legal questioning over the Buildergate scandal, in which he allegedly coordinated with the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW) to raise funds that were supposed to be independent of his campaign.
But the P-I reporters got it wrong.
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Posted Thu, Oct 2, 3:28 p.m.
2008
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Daniel Jack Chasan
Any one who doubts the housing bubble inflated from the ground up, who thinks all the attendant greed and deception resided on Wall Street rather than Main Street, hasn't been listening to my brother-in-law the appraiser. Long before Washington Mutual and Wachovia and Lehman Brothers bit the dust, he complained, the whole system was corrupt. This was how he explained it:
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