WASHINGTON'S LEADING BUSINESS MAGAZINE

February 2010/FEATURES

Is Bellevue threatening Seattle’s retail supremacy?
By: By Shannon O’Leary
Not so very long ago, two local developers battled to win the hand of one very high-end retailer. The skirmish commenced around a handful of downtown Bellevue blocks. On one side: Bellevue's native son, Kemper Freeman Jr.,...
The battle lines between Microsoft and Google run through Seattle.
By: By Stuart Glascock
Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, with its 18-foot-high bridge troll and seven-ton sculpture of Lenin, has billed itself as the Center of the Known Universe. Yet this funky nexus of vegetarian restaurants and yoga studios has...

Contents

Departments

Commentary
Workplace

Boosting morale often transcends the business cycle, age and even pay.

Commentary
Health Care

Seattle has become a good place for brain care.

Commentary
Technology

Commentary
Finance

A Play in One, Final Act.

Green

Local businesses tap into the potential of algae for everything from fuel to food.
A regionwide effort to make electricity distribution more efficient gets under way.

Real Estate

The economy may be turning around, but the commercial real estate market has yet to hit bottom.

Retail & Services

The Woods Coffee Co. works to create community wherever it goes, and to avoid Starbucks’ mistakes.
Branding a local coffee experience.
Theo Chocolate’s bean-to-bar strategy pays off.
Is Bellevue threatening Seattle’s retail supremacy?
Seattle athletes may move on, but their spirit of giving lingers in their former home.

Commentary
Green
Profiles
Technology

If Washington wants to succeed in clean tech, it needs to lose the smug self-regard and take a clear-eyed look at itself.

Health Care
Technology

After years of research, Dendreon is finally ready to release its first therapy... and it may be a blockbuster.

Commentary
Retail & Services

Event Promoter

Retail & Services
Technology

A Seattle company mates social networking technology with online dating.

Technology

The battle lines between Microsoft and Google run through Seattle.
Google and Microsoft engage in hand-to-hand combat in some unlikely theaters of operation.

Made in Washington
Retail & Services

What would it take to make Seattle a premier town for sports and all the business that comes with it?