Bill Conroy
Seattle Ranks Fourth Among the Nations Top Overworked Cities
Work-life balance across 40 U.S. markets assessed by new study
Seattle is experiencing a booming economy that is producing a steady supply of jobs for area residents, but the explosive growth may be resulting in a lot of the citys employees being overworked, if a new study assessing work-life balance across 40 U.S. markets is on the mark. In the study, called Cities for the…
The History of the Now-Thriving Pike Place Market Is Paved With Crossroads
Seattle | 1911
This story appears in the August 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. At the turn of the 20th century, farmers brought their produce, dairy and meats to Seattle on horse-drawn wagons and sold the goods to wholesalers. By 1907, however, the price of produce skyrocketed, enriching middlemen, angering citizens and squeezing farmers margins….
The Hama Hama Co. Has Made the Oyster Its World
The pearl of the Hama Hama Co. is its Hood Canal oyster farm
This story appears in the August 2019 issue and is presented by Impact Washington. Click here for a free subscription. The Hama Hama Co. is located at the confluence of the Hamma Hamma River and Hood Canal on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, where it harvests fresh oysters and clams. The shellfish are sold directly to consumers…
Condo Project in Olympia Is Now Homeless
Olympia developer kills project over social climate
This story appears in the August 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. A developers decision to pull the plug on a seven-story luxury condo project in Olympia is evidence that homelessness and a lack of affordable housing are more than just an issue in Seattle and other big cities. Citing the social climate…
Seattle’s Cray Inc. Is a Fast Act to Catch in the Supercomputing Arena
The legacy tech company remains at the forefront of supercomputing globally
BIG DATA. Explosive growth in data and the demand for tools to process and analyze that information are driving a new era in high-performance computing, says Cray Inc. CEO Peter Ungaro.
Daring Women: Caiman Consultings Marci Marra Believes Self-awareness Is Critical to Effective Leadership
She advises women pursuing leadership roles to be authentic to who you are and what you stand for
Marci Marra is a managing partner in the Seattle office of Redmond-based Caiman Consulting, a business consulting firm covering the West Coast, from Seattle to the Bay Area, with a small East Coast footprint as well. The company serves a range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 corporations. Marra is a specialist in rapid…
College-Loan Debt Packs a Punch, But Burden in Washington Ranks Low Versus Other States
Students at three area UW campuses faired best last year among greater Seattle institutions, study shows
College students graduating in 2018 in the state of Washington hit the job market with an average debt load of $23,671, placing Washington near the bottom of the 50 states in terms of the average student-loan debt per borrower, according to a recent study analyzing 895 public and private higher-education institutions nationwide. Washingtons average per-borrower…
Seattles Suburban Office-Leasing Market Contracts Slightly in Q2
The quarterly results, however, are skewed by one project as the longer-term prospects remain robust
The Seattle suburban office market recorded an uptick in the overall vacancy rate as well as rent in the second quarter, driven primarily by the completion of the Southport office campus in Renton, which came online fully vacant and with high rent, according to the latest market assessment by Cushman & Wakefield. Overall in the…
Seattle-Area Energy-Storage Company Group14 Technologies Gets A Capital Boost
The company is developing advanced battery technology to help fuel the nations electric future
Group14 Technologies Inc., based in Woodinville, located just east of Bothell, has successfully raised $14.4 million as part of an $18.1 million equity offering to advance its efforts to develop a better battery to help power the expanding electric-vehicle and energy-storage market. The company, spun out in 2016 from Seattle materials manufacturing company EnerG2, is…
Seattle Tops the Charts in Q2 Among the Nations Leading Office Markets
The city led the way in space absorbed, driven by robust tech-firm leasing activity
Seattle turned in the best performance this past second quarter among the top 10 office markets in the nation, with the biggest drop in vacancy and the largest volume of space absorbed, driven mainly by major tech-company leases, a report by Colliers International shows. The citys office vacancy rate dropped by 1 percentage point, to…
Daring Women: Intertox Inc. Scientist and World-Class Mountain Bike Athlete Anne Galyean Believes in Embracing Fear
She says fear can be a great tool in decision-making because it heightens our senses and sharpens our minds
Anne Galyean is a staff scientist and executive assistant with Intertox Inc., a Seattle-based scientific consulting firm that assesses the risks posed to public health and the environment by chemical and biological agents. Galyean has more than 11 years of laboratory research experience as well as experience coordinating multi-year projects, managing researchers and organizing collaborative…