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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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View MoreDecember floods destroyed $30,000 in flowers. Pike Place Market's Hmong farm vendors face a generational reckoning.
December 2025 floods destroyed $25,000 to $150,000 in crops per farm across Washington's Hmong farming community, threatening the vendor pipeline that supplies nearly 60% of Pike Place Market's farm stalls.
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View MoreAmazon cuts AI jobs as Seattle's labor market shifts from software to trucks and security
Amazon confirmed new AI job cuts on Wednesday, July 23, the same day Workforce Development Council data showed Seattle-area software engineer openings dropped 56% while truck driver and security guard listings surged, signaling a structural shift in the regional economy.
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View More1 in 4 Washington businesses weighs leaving the state as energy and tax costs climb
A new Association of Washington Business survey finds 24% of member companies are considering leaving Washington, triple the 2025 rate, as executives cite the 9.9% income tax and rising energy costs at a July 23 summit in SeaTac.
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View MoreSeattle City Light rate hike passes 9-0, but small businesses can't yet calculate the cost
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved back-to-back 9.5% Seattle City Light rate increases for 2027 and 2028, but the utility has not published its updated commercial rate schedule, leaving Ballard breweries, Queen Anne restaurants, and Magnolia commercial tenants unable to determine their actual exposure.
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View MoreKoshari, Ballard's Egyptian-Lebanese restaurant, to close Aug. 15 and search for new space
Koshari, the family-run vegetarian restaurant inside Salt & Sugar in Ballard, will serve its last meal at 5615 24th Ave. NW on Saturday, Aug. 15, and pause operations while owners Ayman and Amani Almasri search for a new permanent location.
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View MoreSeattle AI startup Clarify makes first acquisition, absorbs San Francisco rival
Seattle AI startup Clarify acquired San Francisco-based Seam AI on Tuesday, July 21, adding five employees and a second office as the serial-founder-led company builds toward a Salesforce alternative with $22.5 million in venture backing.
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View MoreDelta Air Lines faces $5.8 million in damages over Seattle-area job postings that omitted pay ranges
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleging Delta Air Lines failed to include salary ranges in Washington state job postings returned to federal court in Seattle on July 8, with more than $5.8 million in potential damages at stake on behalf of at least 1,100 applicants.
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