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Starbucks, Mercedes-Benz Electrify I-5
Starbucks will install 100 charging stations along the I-5 corridor
Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz are blending coffee with EV charging. The Seattle coffee purveyor will install Mercedes-Benz DC Fast chargers at 100 stores along the I-5 corridor from Canada to Mexico so motorists can grab a cup of coffee or a snack while charging their cars along the 1,400-mile stretch of highway. Both companies have audacious…
Prominent Seattleites React to Harris, Biden Shakeup With Enthusiasm
Events spark Democratic optimism
For Suzi LeVine, the upcoming presidential election revolves around reproductive rights. For Emily Cantrell, it’s about the prospect of the first woman president. Brian Screnar says it’s “incredibly heartening and inspiring” to see Democrats coalesce around an unprecedented shakeup at the top of the ticket. It’s been fewer than two days since President Joe Biden…
Health Hub of the Future
The $1.3 billion Swedish First Hill expansion aims to evoke a sense of holistic care and a healing environment enhanced by natural light
Hospitals aren’t always the most inviting places. Never-ending corridors, sterile fluorescent lights, and a labyrinthine maze of rooms often create an environment that make patients and health care providers feel uneasy. It doesn’t have to be that way. And Swedish Health Services’ ambitious First Hill expansion project aims to prove it. After 10 years of…
Costco Hikes Membership Fees
The company last raised the price in 2017
I love shopping at Costco. Sure, our household doesn’t always need 18 tubes of toothpaste at once, but that’s a small price to pay for the savings. Even just one purchase — a computer, for instance — can recoup a basic membership fee. Rumors have been swirling for years that the company would raise fees,…
MOD Pizza To Be Acquired By Elite Restaurant Group
The sale may have staved off a potential bankruptcy filing
MOD Super Fast Pizza LLC has agreed to be acquired by Elite Restaurant Group. Terms were not disclosed. Bellevue-based MOD was founded in 2008 and until recently had been on a growth tear. It now operates more than 500 locations across the United States and Canada, but had reportedly closed more than two dozen this…
Catie Griggs Resigns From Mariners
Chairman John Stanton will temporarily assume her role
Catie Griggs has resigned as president of business operations for the Seattle Mariners. In a statement, Griggs says she resigned to “prioritize her family” and relocate back to the East Coast to be closer to both her husband, Justin, and her aging parents. Prior to joining the Mariners in 2021, Griggs served as chief business…
The Catalyst of Capital
Leslie Feinzaig is unapologetic in her desire to help women entrepreneurs
Leslie Feinzaig knows the numbers. Women-founded startups across the United States received only 2% of venture capital investment in 2023. Grim as that is, it keeps a fire burning under Feinzaig, the chief executive officer and founder of Seattle-based Female Founders Alliance (FFA), a nationwide community for women and nonbinary startup founders. Feinzaig also founded…
