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View MorePCC opens 17th store in Madison Valley after decade of delays
PCC Community Markets opens its 17th store in Madison Valley on Oct. 14, bringing 75 jobs to a site that took a decade to develop after neighborhood disputes delayed the mixed-use project.
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View MoreStarbucks shuts another downtown Seattle café as closures mount
Starbucks closed its café at 1700 Seventh Ave. in downtown Seattle on Sunday, Sept. 20, continuing a pattern of hometown store shutdowns and corporate job cuts that has accelerated under CEO Brian Niccol's restructuring plan.
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View MoreHubble Network hits $1.6B valuation with $200M raise
Seattle startup Hubble Network raised $200 million in a Series C round, reaching a $1.6 billion valuation and becoming the city's newest tech unicorn as it builds a satellite-Bluetooth tracking network.
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View MoreSeattle's Ravel raises $8.2M to tackle spandex recycling
Seattle startup Ravel raised $8.2 million in an oversubscribed seed round to scale its "purification recycling" technology, which separates elastane from blended fabrics and converts it into recycled plastic pellets for new polyester.
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View MoreSeattle startup Nuance Labs raises $50M for expressive AI
Seattle AI startup Nuance Labs raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to build a single AI model that reads and responds to human expression in real time, bringing the company's total funding to $60 million.
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View MorePuget Sound sheds 7,000 jobs as Washington's business rank slides
The central Puget Sound region lost nearly 7,000 jobs in 2025, the first annual decline outside a recession in two decades, according to a new Challenge Seattle report that found Washington's business ranking fell from 1st to 11th since 2017.
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View MoreStadium owners bar Macklemore from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour
Seattle rapper Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour after stadium owners, led by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, refused to allow him to perform following his onstage pro-Palestinian statements at MetLife Stadium.
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View MoreWinCo refiles permits for first Seattle store on Aurora Ave.
WinCo Foods has refiled construction permits for a roughly 100,000-square-foot store at the former Sam's Club on Aurora Ave. N. in Bitter Lake, restarting the project after a legal challenge stalled it for months.
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View MoreMatt Broussard plans Capitol Hill rotisserie chicken restaurant
Social media chef Matt Broussard, who built an 8-million-follower online career after working in Tom Douglas's Seattle kitchens, plans to open Char the Chicken, a counter-service rotisserie spot on Capitol Hill, by October.
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View MoreSeattle's BrainChild Bio raises $116M for brain cancer therapy
Seattle startup BrainChild Bio, spun out of Seattle Children's Hospital, raised $116 million in Series A funding to advance a CAR T cell therapy for DIPG, one of the deadliest childhood brain cancers, into a pivotal Phase 2 trial.
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View MorePine Books carries on 65-year bookselling tradition at Pike Place
Pine Books is the sixth bookstore to occupy a Pike Place Market storefront that has sold books continuously since 1961, with owner Tiffany Brost stocking Pulitzer and Booker Prize winners and hosting a World Cup book bracket.
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View MoreBeehive Espresso owner owes 70 baristas $1.85M for wage theft
A King County judge ordered Beehive Espresso owner Alan Tagle to pay more than $1.85 million to 70 former bikini baristas after finding he stole wages and tips for years across five Puget Sound espresso stands.
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View MoreCrocodile's Belltown basement gets new 400-capacity venue
Pittsburgh-based Bottlerocket Social Hall will combine the Crocodile's shuttered Madame Lou's and Here-After basement venues into a single 400-capacity concert and event space in Belltown, targeting a March 2027 opening.
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View MoreResearch predicts few Seattle millionaires will flee new tax
A Cornell researcher estimates about 98% of Washington's 25,000 millionaire households will stay despite the state's new 9.9% income tax, even as anecdotes of wealthy residents leaving dominate the debate ahead of the Tuesday, Nov. 3 vote on Initiative 645.
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View MoreKitchen & Market plans Queen Anne store for early 2027
Kitchen & Market, the specialty grocer founded at Pike Place Market in 2021, plans to open its sixth location at W. McGraw Street and Queen Anne Avenue N. in early 2027, bringing chef-prepared meal kits and grab-and-go items to the neighborhood.
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