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Adidas helps nonprofit outfit PNW wheelchair basketball athletes
Wheelchair basketball athletes from the Pacific Northwest will, for the first time, wear specifically tailored uniforms during the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Tournament, thanks to a collaboration between Adidas and a Portland-based nonprofit. Adaptive...
Workers forfeit hundreds on a popular workplace benefit. Here's why.
Workers are losing out on hundreds of dollars in flexible spending account money. A new report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute analyzed more than 3.2 million flexible spending accounts in 2022. It found, while workers are contributing more...
Commercial builder distributes overdose antidote to construction sites
Commercial real estate developer and builder Ryan Cos. is distributing a medicine that prevents opioid overdoses to job sites across the country, including in the Seattle region, the company announced on Monday. Overdoses in King County are skyrocketing,...
StepSecurity eyes hiring push after seed round
Seattle-based cybersecurity startup StepSecurity is looking to add to its team after raising $3 million earlier this month. StepSecurity co-founder and CEO Varun Sharma said the company has a "handful" of employees now but plans to grow to about 10...
Ex-Northwest Motorsport property scooped up by neighbor
An entity associated with Puyallup Mazda has acquired several pieces of a former Northwest Motorsport property in Puyallup for $10 million. The sale, recorded by Pierce County on Friday, comes after Northwest Motorsport closed abruptly earlier this...
Liens and Bankruptcies Leads - Collected week of May 3, 2024
State Tax Liens and Releases The latest information available concerning unpaid tax levies filed by states against individuals and businesses. -State Tax Warrants Business or Person: B, Name: Quality Interior Construction, Address: 26605 108th Ave....
Real Estate Leads - Collected week of May 3, 2024
Building Permits Identify the individuals and developers securing the largest commercial and residential building permits in the area, with details on the date, location, dollar value and parties involved. -Commercial Mortgages Permittype: C, Contractor:...
Court Records - Collected week of May 3, 2024
Judgments Legal judgments filed or recorded in local county offices. -Lawsuits Extended Business or Person: B, Plaintiff: ATTOM Data Solutions LLC, Defendant: REBLS Inc. dba CityBldr, Amount: $1,763,821, Winner: plaintiff, Caseno: 24 2 05397 2 S, Filedate:...
Seattle travel bag maker plans flagship store at Bellevue Square
Seattle outdoor bag maker Tom Bihn is opening its first flagship store in Bellevue. The Sodo-based company is taking a 1,450-square-foot space at Bellevue Square, in the former Frankie4 space near Macy's. The opening is set for the summer. "This...
Dell subsidiary sheds office space in Pioneer Square
Dell EMC has shrunk its Seattle office footprint, vacating at least one floor in a building in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. The Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has occupied several floors of the 505 First building since it acquired...
Opinion: Crisis looms in the middle of our electrical revolution
It is rare for all of us to worry about what will happen when we flip a light switch. Will the lights, oven, microwave, hairdryer, automobile charging system turn on or not? We expect that it will all work when we need it to function. In the not-too-distant...
Construction begins on Amazon-backed senior housing project
National development company TWG broke ground last week on the region's latest Amazon-funded housing project, a $73.5 million, 170-unit affordable apartment community for seniors, Ardea at Totem Lake, just off of Interstate 405 in Kirkland. All of the...
Leafly names board member as president and COO
Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LFLY) on Tuesday named Peter Lee as the company's president and chief operating officer. Lee was previously president and chief financial officer of Merida Merger Corp. I, the special...
Seattle engineering company merges with national firm
Seattle-headquartered engineering company Rushing is now part of a national company, IMEG Corp. Rushing and Rock Island, Illinois-based IMEG on Tuesday announced the merger, with Rushing co-founder Rae Ann Rushing saying the move will help expand her...
Ag tech startup lands investment from Nvidia
Seattle-based agriculture tech startup Carbon Robotics has landed an investment from NVentures, the venture arm of computer chip giant Nvidia Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA). A Carbon Robotics spokesperson said the companies aren't disclosing the size of the investment,...
Grocer acquires former Fry's site in Renton
WinCo Foods Inc. is coming to The Landing in Renton. The Boise, Idaho-based employee-owned grocery chain paid $24.5 million for an 11.5-acre property where Fry's Electronics operated for before closing in 2021 due to changes in the retail business and...
NanoString leaders depart after company's sale closes
Scientific instrument company Bruker Corp. (Nasdaq: BRKR) on Monday closed its $392.6 million acquisition of Seattle-based research device maker NanoString Technologies. The acquisition marks the close of a chapter for NanoString that began in February,...
Howard Schultz has advice for Starbucks on how to fix itself
Howard Schultz has some advice about how to run his former company, a year after stepping down again as CEO of Starbucks. The three-time chief executive of the Seattle coffee giant took to LinkedIn on Sunday to comment on how best to right the company,...
BizSpotlight: Banner Bank
Tips from Banner Bank If you’re looking to buy or sell a business, it’s worth considering if your transaction qualifies for a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan. With SBA financing, the bank provides a long-term loan at reasonable rates...
Retailer closing hundreds of stores after bankruptcy
Welcome to The National Observer, a roundup of top business news and actionable insights from across The Business Journals. We'll take a look today at Walmart's decision to close down its health clinic business, how small businesses are rethinking real...
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