Breaking from the Puget Sound Business Journal
Is the tide turning for Bellevue's office market? These Goldman Sachs vets are ready to pounce
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What a powder keg. Big No Kings protests nationwide. War in the Middle East. Minnesota lawmakers shot by a man impersonating a cop. And the milItary parade to honor the founding of the Army, which just happens to be the birthday of a president who admires authoritarian leaders.

JFC. A huge blow to democracy. Stunning but not shocking.
AP reports the shooter is still on the loose, and is or was impersonating a cop.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting

A busy day on the ship canal.

Pike Place Market delivery truck passes new 1st Ave checkpoint on first day of Market’s pilot to keep out Ubers and such as well as people just passing through.

SDOT employee said only a handful of Market vendors had to reroute from attempting to turn left from northbound 1st to southbound.

Colman Building sale price revealed in new filing.
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Starbucks CEO says springtime job cuts coming. www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news...

Spicy Friday afternoon of a 3-day holiday bad news dump we're having in Seattle with WaFd and Starbucks bringing the "bads" -- job cuts. Posting links to Puget Sound Business Journal reports next.

Holy cow - Roughly 1 of 7 seven homes within the perimeters of the Palisades and Eaton fires have been destroyed or damaged. That’s a total of 6,354 homes; of those, 5,449 were destroyed, and 905 were damaged. This is according to a new analysis from Redfin.

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A recent sale in Wallingford boosts the holdings of a Seattle developer and sheds light on what's going to happen, or not, to the block's most prominent site, Murphy's Pub, which wasn't part of this transaction.
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From Colliers' Q4 #Seattle office report: News of struggling real estate portfolios also hit the market this quarter, with the potential to impact multiple iconic office buildings next year.

Commercial real estate is magic!
Former Macy's building turned into Amazon office space in Redmond sells for $58 million. www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news...

It's rare when #Seattle permits the demolition of landmarked buildings, like the one that housed in Mama's Mexican Kitchen in Belltown. It came down this week after 101 years.
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I've made the jump.