Bill Conroy
Seattle Entrepreneur LeeAnn Baker Stedings Story Shows That Bouncing Back Is a Path to Success
The owner of the nearly 17-year-old LeeAnn Baker Interiors found the confidence to overcome a business failure early on in her career
LeeAnn Baker Steding, the founder of LeeAnn Baker Interiors Ltd., in Seattle learned a big lesson of entrepreneurship early on: Never give up. Her first business venture, a glossy New York magazine targeting professional decorators, succumbed to the vagaries of the publishing industry and breathed its last in 2001, after three years of publishing as…
REI Unveils Four New Stores in a Single Day
The member-owned co-op continues to spread its retail wings while also staying focused on a broader Earth-friendly mission
Outdoor-gear retailer REI Co-op for the first time in its 81-year history is opening the doors to four new stores in a single day, today, Nov. 15. The new stores bring the total number of new outlets opened by the Kent-based company to eight, plus the relocation of two existing stores to larger spaces. The…
When It Comes to Overall Affordability, Sea-Tac Airport Is Unremarkable
Sea-Tac ranks 24th in a recent study of the nations most affordable major airports
Sea-Tac airport ranks in the middle of the pack in a study of the nations 50 busiest airports based on overall affordability, which included an assessment of domestic airfares as well as other incremental costs like baggage-cart rentals, the price of a cup of coffee, parking fees and the cost of an Uber ride to…
Seattle Tech Workers Are Among the Highest-Paid in the Country
The bad news is that, on average, men are paid more than women for the same tech roles, a recent survey shows
Tech workers in Seattle command the second-highest average annual salary among major U.S. tech hubs, though men make more than women, and Microsoft ranks as the most desirable company to work for among local tech talent, according to a recent study by tech-job marketplace Hired.com. The study, based on a survey of 3,800 tech workers…
Northern Virginia Housing Prices Have Soared Since Amazon Chose Arlington as its HQ2
The Seattle Amazon effect now extends to the company's East Coast HQ2 location, Realtor.com says
If the Amazon effect on housing prices in Seattle is still a question mark in some circles, a just-released study by Realtor.com seems to pour cold water on those doubts. The real estate platform assessed the impact on Arlington, Virginias housing market a year after Amazon chose the East Coast metro as its second headquarters…
Seattle Earns High Marks for Enacting Policies That Improve Residents Health and Quality of Life
Nationwide study examined nine key areas to determine which cities excel at smart policymaking
Seattle is one of only eight of cities nationwide to earn an overall Gold City designation in an assessment of its success in enacting policies that improve the health and well-being of its residents, an improvement from an overall silver award last year, according to CityHealth. Policy advances over the past year that led to…
Liz Dunn Has Blazed an Impressive Path as a Seattle Entrepreneur
Dunns career is defined by variety and marked by success across multiple disciplines, including tech, real estate and angel investing
Liz Dunn is the very definition of an entrepreneur. After spending the initial years of her career as a software developer at Microsoft, she changed gears and launched her own company in a completely different field: real estate. Through her company, Dunn & Hobbes, she has spent the past 21 years developing and managing real…
Nursing Home at Seattle’s Ida Culver House Broadview Laying Off 148 as Part of a Care-Model Transition
The facility is being converted into an assisted-living and memory-care community slated to reopen next year
Ida Culver House Broadview in Northwest Seattle plans to lay off 148 full- and part-time employees at the start of next year, according to a federal WARN Act notice. The layoffs are part of a plan to convert the skilled-nursing facilities at the retirement community to a new care model offering higher-level assisted-living and secured…
PCC, Whole Foods Add to Their Store Muscle in Seattle
The grocery chains unveil new stores within blocks of a major rival
High-end organic grocer PCC Community Markets is opening its 13th store in the Seattle area while last month Amazon-owned competitor Whole Foods Market unveiled its 10th outlet in the Puget Sound region as competition in the high-end grocery market continues to heat up. Both of the new stores are located within blocks of another competitor,…
Seattle Earns Another Strong Score for Fostering Female-Owned Businesses
The metro area ranks as the fourth best place nationally for women entrepreneurs, new study finds
The Seattle area once again ranked high nationally, at No. 4, in a recent study of the top markets for women entrepreneurs that was based on an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from 2016 and 2017. The study, conducted by personal-finance platform SmartAsset, made use of eight metrics in assessing the leading markets for…