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With the Sonics trading Seattle rain for Oklahoma tornadoes, a question is posed: How will Seattle fill KeyArena? Chances are, they won't, at least not all on the same night. But the question is not academic: With 41 days freed...
With most of the regulatory roadblocks removed in the sale of Puget Energy to private investors, it looks as if another marquee Northwest public company is going to be under new management.
The recent wave of public companies...
William Neukom's legacy as outgoing president of the American Bar Association will be his commitment to the World Justice Project, a global, multidisciplinary initiative based on the premise that the rule of law is the foundation...
SAME OLD SONG
Nice article (August issue: "Failure to Compute"). It does, however, seem like this is the same old song we've been hearing for 20 years or more. The biggest problem, I'm sorry to say, is the person staring back at...
KENNEWICK -- Bechtel has paid $250,000 to have its name attached to the boardroom at the new Tri-Cities Regional Business and Visitor Center. The new "Bechtel Board Room" is the largest corporate meeting facility in the...
Shadows of the 2005 28-day Machinists' strike against Boeing may be emerging as negotiations between the Boeing Co. and its largest union enter their final days. Members of the International Association of Machinists are expected...
Washington businesses, special interest groups and the University of Washington aren't shy when it comes to political contributions. Microsoft leads the list of the top 20 contributors to federal candidates and political parties...
Washington's largest home-based hotel chain, Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels Corp., is exploring whether to sell itself. The company, led by new CEO Anupam Narayan, got an unsolicited takeover bid in June from Seattle-based...
Glen H. Bogner is named president of Molina Healthcare Inc., Bothell.
Seattle-based VLST Corp. names Paul J. Carter chief scientific officer.
Jeffrey P. Gannon is appointed chairman of the board at Vu1 Corp.,...
BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals has changed its name to MDRNA and has a new CEO, Michael French. The company has been focused on developing nasal spray formulations of existing drugs. Under French, it's expected to focus...
Washington state's cherry crop was smaller than expected, due to colder-than-Siberia weather in May and June.
The harvest started about a week late because the cold kept the fruit from ripening, and early estimates were that...
Three Seattle-based entities -- the Cascade Land Conservancy, Vulcan Inc. and real estate investment adviser Kennedy Associates -- have received international recognition as winners in the first Sustainable Cities Awards program...
New Microsoft Surface tabletop computers in a Las Vegas casino have been installed with software that allows users to order drinks from the bar -- and flirt with other users at computers across the room.
In a move that seems...
Three Portland investors have launched a new airline that connects the Rose City with Seattle. On June 30, SeaPort Air began operating 16 flights each weekday from Boeing Field, with one-way fares starting at $149. The new...
The Port of Everett is scaling back an expansion after a report from a consultant suggested that West Coast container ca rgo volumes have hit their peak.
With growth slowing down and with several major expansions underway at...
Turns out, Moses Lake makes a fine stand-in for the moon.
Preparing to send astronauts to the moon by 2020, NASA chose Moses Lake for testing because of the room it offered. And the sandy surface in Grant County resembles that...
Perhaps the only upside to declining home prices is that our property taxes might go down. And then only to the owners, as lower taxes would mean county governments would take a revenue hit.
Snohomish County, at least, has...
Sound Publishing Inc. has purchased the Enumclaw Courier-Herald and Bonney Lake Courier-Herald newspapers for an undisclosed price. Sound Publishing, a subsidiary of Black Press Ltd., of British Columbia, bought the papers from a...
Washington CEO Magazine received a gold and two silver awards in the 2008 Editorial Excellence Awards competition run by the Alliance of Area Business Publications.
Washington CEO was named the second-best U.S. regional business...
A brand-new California wine company has acquired one of Washington's oldest wineries, along with two other Northwest winemakers.
The new company, Ascentia Wine Estates of Sonoma, opened for business with a splash this summer,...
Darin Brown is now president of Avenue A | Razorfish's Europe operations.Katerie Chapman is promoted to vice president at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.Bellevue-based Resolute Solutions Corp. names Frank J. Costa...
The collapse in home values has shaken consumer confidence, led to lower consumer spending and widespread job losses, and has put some homebuyers out of their homes. More bad news is coming: Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger...
The University of Washington is very difficult to deal with. ... We have great relationships with some departments but not the relationship we hoped [for].
-- Richard Shea, CEO of Spiration Inc., at a UW-Bothell-sponsored summit...
Washington CEO Magazine was honored three times this year at the annual Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards banquet. Senior Writer Aaron Corvin won a second- place award in business news and...
O Ecotextiles Inc., a Seattle company that makes environmentally friendly materials for drapery, upholstery and bedclothes, has been awarded $50,000 from the Zino Society's second annual Green-Socially Conscious Investment Forum...
BELLEVUE -- Groundbreaking for European Tower, a 16-story luxury condominium project, has been postponed. Developer Eugene Gershman says he's waiting until the market improves, possibly next fall. More than a third of the units...
A program developed by the Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce has become a national model in a campaign to encourage local businesses to hire the wives and husbands of people serving in the military. Backers say that too...
Say "DuPont" and the first thing that comes to mind is the American global chemical giant. But DuPont also is a small and, perhaps, easily forgotten city in south Puget Sound. Well, start paying attention. While DuPont is, in...
Bellevue truck maker Paccar Inc. has donated $1 million to Overlake Hospital Medical Center to set up the Paccar Education Center -- a 7,000-square-foot education facility intended to boost training for medical professionals...
Nintendo of America will start work later this year on a new 275,000-square-foot building at its Redmond headquarters. It will replace seven low-rise buildings currently on the site. The company intends to build sustainable...
The Port of Everett has landed an anchor tenant -- Bayside Marine -- for its new "Craftsman District" on the Everett waterfront.
The $13 million Craftsman project is intended to revitalize the industrial waterfront with...
Seattle-based Big Fish Games promotes Laurent de Segur from vice president of technology to chief technology officer.Kevin Doerr is named senior vice president of Oodle, Seattle.Dennis Fitzpatrick is named general manager of...
Maybe you work at home alone. Maybe you're on the road a lot and you have no headquarters or co-workers. You like your independence, but you're beginning to forget what it's like to grab a coffee with another human being who also...
Small to midlevel farmers in Washington state look stronger than ever despite spiking oil and food prices. Traditionally muscled out by large agribusinesses ? whose capital, infrastructure and federal commodity subsidies enable...
· Ellen Bovarnick is named regional director of the Anti-Defamation League?s Pacific Northwest Region.
· Paul Campbell...
The continuing credit crunch has claimed another victim: Clise Properties' plans to sell and redevelop a 13-acre tract in downtown Seattle, a $7 billion project on the scale of London's Canary Wharf.
That project has now been...
Fund, a state fund charged with distributing $350 million in tobacco settlement money to life sciences, has announced its first grants: $22 million to fund five programs.
THE...
Rvs Come, Rvs Go
Western Recreational Vehicles Inc., a Yakima maker of the eponymous yachts of the highways, is shutting down after a failed merger attempt. While company president Bob Wert issued a statement April 17 saying the...
Will cars someday run on cardboard? How about sawdust? Weyerhaeuser and Chevron have formed a joint venture to convert cellulose and lignin -- two basic compounds found in plants -- into biofuels. Much early biofuel research has...
BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals' plans to deliver drugs via nasal sprays could be snuffed out. Auditors at accounting firm KPMG warned investors they have serious doubts whether the biotech can survive. Nastech lost $52...
Rural communities around the state often balk at supporting Seattle-centric transportation projects. One big one might be a windfall for Grays Harbor County, however. The $4.4 billion project to replace the State Route 520...
A new biotechnology company being launched out of Accelerator Corp., a business incubator in Seattle, is seeking to commercialize technology developed at Washington State University. Commercializing university research is not...
The nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched a new major project to accelerate brain and spinal cord research and help scientists worldwide gain new insight into numerous diseases and disorders.
The Seattle-based...
Thinking you can put a fire under your employees by threatening to can 'em? Can layoffs create a leaner, meaner organization that reacts faster to change? A new Washington State University study suggests that while Donald Trump's...
Alex Alben is named vice president of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze is named vice president of sales and business development for Seattlebased Pluggd.L & L Financial Holdings Inc., Seattle, names Gene M. Bennett...
Seattle developer Bruce Blume, founder, chairman and CEO of The Blume Co., is spearheading a project inspired by the ideas of urban-planning critic and activist Jane Jacobs. Yale Campus, in Seattle's South Lake Union...
The best way to make money on the Internet may be to give it away, a leading thinker on the online economy says.
"Every business, one way or another, is going to have to compete with free," says Chris Anderson, the editor of...
Dwight Babcock is appointed interim CEO and chairman for IsoRay Inc., Richland, following the resignation of Roger Girard.Sachin Chawla, vice president of product development at GoldenGate Software, is named chairman at...
Boeing failure to deliver on recent defense contracts was a key reason the Air Force didn't pick it to fill a $40 billion contract for refueling tankers. Lexington Institute analyst Loren Thompson says the decision "was not a...
Microsoft just loves Seattle as a place to set up new offices. Combined with employees who joined through the Redmond company's acquisition of aQuantive Inc., the company expects to have nearly 1,400 employees in seven locations...
With a resurgent downtown, a four-year University of Washington branch campus, more affordable housing than in Seattle and one of the top seaports in the nation, you'd think all is well in the City of Destiny, T-Town -- Tacoma....
FORKS -- Filming is nearly complete on the movie Twilight, based on the Stephanie Meyer novel. In the story, a teenage girl moves to this rainy Olympic Peninsula outpost, where she falls in love with a high school classmate --...
The Tulalip tribes will open their new 12- story, 350-room Tulalip Casino Resort this summer at their Quil Ceda Creek development west of Marysville. The new resort will be Snohomish County's first destination hotel. The resort...
Commuter rail could expand to the east side of Lake Washington under a proposal being considered by Sound Transit. Seattle's Cascadia Center has proposed spending $37 million to upgrade an existing 42-mile rail line between...
Seattle was home to 33 environmentally sustainable buildings in 2007. The city is projected to have more than 100 "green" buildings by 2020, according to Colliers International.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Feb. 7 that CEO Patty Stonesifer would be leaving the organization by the end of the year. Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive, has led the foundation since its inception in...
The Washington Technology Center (WTC), a statewide economic development organization, has awarded $528,978 in funding to eight local technology firms and their two supporting research institutions, the University of Washington...
One element of Bremerton's evolving downtown renaissance is proving problematic -- the new Harborside Marina has been involved in two recent collisions with state ferries attempting to land at the nearby ferry dock.
Washington...
DON'T FORGET NORM DICKS
Bryan Corliss did a fine job in his article "Welcome To Boomerton" in your March 2008 issue. Bremerton (or is it Boomerton?) is experiencing a renaissance that many cities dream of and the article points...
Seattle-based Horizon Air has repainted four of its 70-seat CRJ-700 jets in the school colors of Washington and Oregon's four Pac-10 universities.
The first - in WSU's crimson and gray - rejoined the fleet after being repainted...
PCC Natural Markets, the Seattlebased grocery co-op, plans to open its ninth store, in Edmonds, by the end of June, coming as a flurry of much larger U.S. grocery and retail chains aggressively move into its market:...
By March 2009, the Bavarian-themed village Leavenworth hopes to open a passenger train station to further boost tourism and to enable visitors from western Washington to avoid driving through the Cascades.
The train stop,...
BAINBRIDGE
Washington State Ferries has begun selling mural-sized advertisements on its boats. Backpack retailer JanSport was the first, paying $40,000 to mount floor-toceiling murals on two ferries on the Seattle-to-Bainbridge...
Yakima is poised for a major resurgence, boosters say. The city recorded more than $100 million in new construction in 2007 ? a record ? as developers poured new money into a number of downtown projects.
It's a sharp turnaround...
Boise-based Hawkins Companies has proposed building a 700,000-square-foot (more than 16 acres) shopping center in the currently undeveloped wheat fields between Pullman and Moscow, Idaho.
The shopping center would be built...
Neah Power Systems Inc. appoints Gerard C. (Chris) D?Couto president and CEO. Former President and CEO Paul Abramowitz is now chairman.PivotLink Corp., formerly SeaTab Software Inc., Seattle, appoints Frank Fulton CEO.Stephen...
Boeing workers in Everett continue to work round-the-clock to get the first 787 ready for its maiden flight.
The new all-composite airplane was supposed to take that first flight later this month. But the target?s been pushed...
Tacoma is the second largest metropolitan area in the state. Pierce County as a whole is considered by the federal government to be a metropolitan division within the Seattle/Tacoma Consolidated Metropolitan Area.
BELLEVUE - Wright Runstad & Co. of Seattle has plans for a 36-acre urban village in Bellevue's Bel-Red corridor that could eventually have 800 apartments, ground-floor retail, open space and more than 3 million square feet of...
