photo by M. Lowrimore
A fire at a north Lake Union research lab triggered a large response from the Seattle Fire Department and sent a plume of potentially dangerous smoke over Lake Union Saturday afternoon.
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   | Opening Day,the official opening of Seattle’s boating season sponsored by the Seattle Yacht Club,includes a celebration of many kinds of water activities. Festivities will include a morning of crew races,a sailboat race,and of course,the grand Opening Day boat parade on Saturday. As always,the Opening Day Parade starts [...] For tourists,the Ride the Ducks attraction offers a fun sightseeing tour through the city and a plunge into Lake Union,with a cruise past Seattle’s famed houseboats and the working waterfront. But a request by the company to build a new launch ramp on property it purchased on the lake’s southeast shore has [...]
Grand Opening December 29-30 The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle is proud to open its newest exhibit,Fish On!,exploring the history of boathouses and fishing resorts of Puget Sound. The new exhibit will run through fall of 2013 in the Gallery in CWB’s Boathouse at 1010 Valley Street,in Seattle next [...]
Yikes! It never ends! New signal installation along Mercer Street will cause lane restrictions for eastbound drivers starting Monday,December 10. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) says for the next two weeks crews will be putting in signals at the intersection of Mercer Street and Fairview Avenue North. Two eastbound lanes on [...] Highly regarded local fitness figure Susan Slater Cotter has opened a beautiful new studio space at 2927 Fuhrman Ave east,next door to Canal Market. Her brand of empathetic boot camp has drawn a solid following and several awards,and we wish her the very best. strength-studio.com [...] Seattle planners have approved Amazon.com’s proposed three-block high-rise office campus in the Denny Triangle. A California hotel developer has filed preliminary paperwork with city planners to build a 15- or 16-story hotel in the middle of Amazon.com’s new South Lake Union headquarters campus. Hundreds of Hostess Brands employees in Washington lost their jobs this year as the company fought with unions. Now the company says it will liquidate its assets nationwide. The Beat has been operating for barely two years on Lake Union,and within that period astounding developments have happened in our area. But today’s announcement from Amazon is jaw-dropping. The burgeoning online retailer announced Friday that it is buying its 11-building South Lake Union headquarters complex from developer Vulcan Real Estate. [...] |      |
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