Sunday Video: What About P3s for Transit?
Public private partnerships have become trendy in infrastructure projects, particularly for transportation. Reece Martin of RMTransit dives into the pros and cons of this...
What To Expect When Expecting Amazon
Amazon announced yesterday that the company is planning the search for a second headquarters in North America where it promises as many as 50,000...
Budget Reckoning Has Pedersen Calling for Cuts, Not Corporate Taxes
Yesterday, the Seattle City Council dug into the latest budget projections and found the City is expected to be short between $210 million to...
Amazon’s Moves on Kroger Turf Glimpse the Future of Buying Food (And It’s Not...
Through some clever permit digging, our friends over at GeekWire have found that the vacant New Seasons in Ballard is being refit as an...
Sunday Video: How The US Made Affordable Homes Illegal
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Vox digs deep into why American housing is so expensive, which runs the gamut from exclusionary zoning practices to a history of redlining.
Policy Lab: Why Are Seattle Restaurants So Expensive?
Seattle service workers are set to get a major wage hike, unless restaurant lobbyists get their way. But policymakers can support the restaurant industry in better ways than simply cutting worker pay.
Amazon Job Estimates Fill in Gaps About Housing Downturn
In the summer of last year we discovered that Seattle’s population growth rate had fallen for the first time since 2010, according to state...
Conventional Conforming: The Quiet Hurdle to Increasing Density
How Federal Subsidy of Loan Interest Rates Block Missing Middle Housing
Earlier in the pandemic, I was searching around Zillow. Looking at houses was a...