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View MoreQueen Anne's first office-to-housing conversion opens its doors
The converted office building at 201 Queen Anne Ave. N. opened for move-ins the week of Aug. 13, becoming Seattle's first major office-to-residential conversion, with rents starting at $1,695 and about 20% of 74 units already leased.
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View MoreMagnolia's Pidgin Cooperative pays $25/hour, offers workers co-ownership
Pidgin Cooperative, a worker-owned restaurant at Fishermen's Terminal in Magnolia, pays every employee $25/hour from day one and offers a path to co-ownership after 2,000 hours of work — a model its founders hope could reshape Seattle's hospitality industry.
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View MoreStarbucks closes inside DocuSign Tower as downtown vacancy hits 56%
Starbucks closed its store inside DocuSign Tower at 999 Third Ave. on Aug. 7 after opting not to renew its lease, directly tied to DocuSign's plan to vacate the building by summer 2027 — the latest ground-floor casualty of downtown Seattle's record office vacancy crisis.
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View MoreStoup Brewing collects 15,000 pounds of supplies for Spokane fire victims
Ballard's Stoup Brewing, whose co-owner lost her childhood home in the Spokane Complex Fire, led a three-day relief drive that collected 15,000 pounds of food, hygiene products and pet supplies from more than 50 Seattle-area businesses.
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View MoreBallard Independent sells for $152M as global investor bets on NW Market Street
BentallGreenOak paid $152 million for the 238-unit Ballard Independent apartment building on NW Market Street, 42% above assessed value, raising questions about what institutional ownership means for ground-floor commercial tenants like Caffe Ladro and Exit 5 Korean BBQ.
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View MoreZillow cuts 500 jobs during Seattle's real estate tech layoff
Zillow Group cut more than 500 employees on Aug. 4, about 7% of its workforce, in its second round of 2026 layoffs. The Seattle-based company did not say how many local workers were affected.
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View MoreExit 5 Korean BBQ targets September opening
Co-owners Mison and Max Kang are bringing their Renton-based all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue restaurant to a 5,803-square-foot space in the Ballard Independent building, adding a sit-down dining option to a corridor where three businesses have announced departures this summer.
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View MoreFlying Bike co-op brewery taps Fremont Brewing veteran as new head brewer
Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery, Washington state's first cooperatively owned brewery, hired Joe Yonke as head brewer effective August 3; the Fremont Brewing veteran already had two award-winning homebrew recipes on tap at the Greenwood taproom.
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View MoreOne in three new Seattle-area businesses fails within 5 years, study finds
A Build Your Store study ranks the Seattle metro 8th of 11 Washington metros for five-year business survival at 66.43%, a data point that arrives as Ballard storefronts including September, Salmon Bay Paddle, Distant West Brewing, and Koshari close or prepare to leave this summer.
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View More$1 billion industrial AI startup bets on Seattle's aerospace engineers, plans to hire 50 by 2027
Los Angeles-based Nominal, a $1 billion industrial AI startup, is converting its downtown Seattle co-working space into a permanent office and plans to grow from 11 to 50 local employees by end of 2027, drawn by the region's deep aerospace engineering talent pool.
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View MoreVacant Queen Anne office building reopens as 74 apartments with rents from $1,695
Stream Real Estate will open 74 apartments later in August at 201 Queen Anne Ave. N., a 1980s office building that sat vacant since the pandemic, with rents from $1,695 to $4,545 and more than $2 million in city tax incentives making the conversion math work.
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View MoreRedmond startup NomadGo gutted after Starbucks kills its AI inventory tool
Redmond startup NomadGo lost most of its 30-person team after Starbucks abruptly terminated its AI inventory-counting contract in April, just nine months after deploying the tool across 11,300 North American stores.
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View MoreCapitol Hill restaurant owner admits to pocketing more than $1 million from workers' paychecks over a decade
The owner of Capitol Hill's Single Shot Kitchen and Saloon pleaded guilty Monday to pocketing more than $1 million in taxes withheld from employees' paychecks over a decade, with sentencing set for October 2026.
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View MoreBallard Goodwill faces demolition as 300-unit apartment plan lands at SDCI
A land use application filed with Seattle's SDCI seeks to demolish the 22-year-old Ballard Goodwill at 6400 8th Ave. NW and replace it with a 300-unit mixed-use apartment building, threatening one of the corridor's last large-format affordable retail anchors.
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View MoreArena Sports' AI phone system goes global as Dallas fitness giant acquires Seattle's Replify
Dallas-based ABC Fitness acquired Seattle AI startup Replify on Monday, July 27, absorbing the 12-person team and its automated communications technology into a platform serving 40 million gym members in more than 100 countries.
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