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Photo Gallery: Inside Amazon’s Spheres
Take a closer look inside The Spheres and the 40,000 individual plants and more than 300 plant species from more than 50 countries and almost every continent that now call it home.
Amazon’s one-of-a-kind spherical addition to its downtown Seattle headquarters officially opened this week. The Spheres are part of the e-commerce giant’s $4 billion headquarters that’s now where 40,000 employee work, and perhaps not coincidentally, 40,000 plants fill the space. Ron Gagliardo, senior manager of horticultural services at Amazon and the person who oversaw the project’s…
5 Cool Cocktails to Toast the End of Dry January
Cheers to making it through the month!
Congrats! You’ve made it through a whole month without a drop of booze. So many calories not consumed, not one hangover or drunken text to apologize for, but, boy, oh, man. You’ve got a powerful thirst for something fresh and spiked, right? Here are five that should hit the spot. Now, go get your drank…
A Condo Comeback: 10 New Developments in the Puget Sound Pipeline
Market makers say they will sell more than a half-billion dollars in newly built multi-family units by 2020.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. What a difference a decade makes. For the first time in ten years, Realogics Group of Companies and its brokers are again representing ten new multi-family, for-sale condominiums and townhomes in downtown Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods. Although the project marketing specialists admit the current condo cycle is just a fraction of the…
Classical Music and Pancakes: Together At Last on Capitol Hill
Erin Jorgensen's "Bach & Pancakes" at Studio Current is the perfect way to spend a Sunday morning in Seattle.
In a grungy but cheery white-walled basement on Capitol Hill—the kind of space that’s been hosting DIY arts events for decades, but which is becoming one of the casualties of the ‘hood’s gentrification—Erin Jorgensen has a large concert marimba set up in front of about three dozen chairs, almost all full. One woman is knitting,…
Amazon Opens The Spheres in Downtown Seattle With Help From Jeff Bezos and Alexa
Seattle and Washington political leaders were also on hand for the official opening ceremony for Seattle's newest urban landmark.
“Alexa, open The Spheres.” “OK, Jeff.” Jeff Bezos gets a little help from Alexa to open the @seattlespheres. #seattle #amazon #alexa #jeffbezos #downtown #southlakeunion #amazonspheres A post shared by Seattle Magazine (@seattlemag) on Jan 29, 2018 at 11:18am PST And with that, the signature piece of Amazon’s $4 billion campus in downtown Seattle was…
This Century-Old Noodle Maker is a Chinatown Pillar
For a century, a Chinatown/International District manufacturer has been turning out a singular product that feeds the community and fuels the multi-generational family business.
The 100-year-old last remnant of the Chinatown/International District’s once-thriving food manufacturing industry, a thin layer of flour coats every surface and a heavenly cookie scent wafts through the air. Ribbons of dough stack up hypnotically on machines that stretch the length of the room and transform raw ingredients into 17 different kinds of noodles and…
Glassybaby’s Perfectly Imperfect Sale Will Bring a Big Crowd
The cult following for the philanthropic Seattle hand-made glass company might already be waiting to get their hands on hugely discounted products.
Tomorrow, glassybaby will host its highly anticipated bi-annual Perfectly Imperfect sale at the company’s warehouse in SoDo (624 South Lander Street, Suite 36) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fans of the one-of-a-kind hand-blown glass votives and drinkers can save big on the pieces that normally sell for $50 a pop. “Our teams check each votive…
