Downtown Seattle

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Downtown Seattle office values are dropping like overripe plums. That's not all bad

In the Seattle metro area, the market price for a place to attempt to concentrate on your work while colleagues talk loudly near your desk is dropping significantly. Eastside, don't get cocky - it's happening there too.
Joshua McNichols
Seattle's surprising place for housing bargains: Downtown

If you’re looking to buy a home in Seattle, there’s a surprising neighborhood where homes are $100,000 cheaper than the city average: downtown Seattle.
Joshua McNichols
How downtown Seattle's forsaken real estate could bring good fortune

Some real estate experts say downtown Seattle has hit rock-bottom, or will soon. And there’s nowhere to go but up.
Joshua McNichols
Seattle says 'Belltown Hellcat' driver ignored order to quiet ear-splitting car

Seattle is suing the so-called “Belltown Hellcat” driver for allegedly continuing to rev his souped-up racecar’s engine at high volume more than a month after the city ordered him to stop.
Ann Dornfeld
Could a return of workers to downtown offices rescue Seattle’s ailing budget?

Suburban workers returning to Seattle offices would boost payroll, business & occupancy and sales tax revenues, analysts say – and help pay the city’s rising costs due primarily to inflation.
Ann Dornfeld
Ghost Mall: Lululemon is latest store to abandon Seattle’s Pacific Place

On a sunny Wednesday morning in Downtown Seattle, you could count the number of shoppers at Pacific Place mall on two hands.
Monica Nickelsburg
New mental health teams are hitting the streets in downtown Seattle alongside police

Through a pilot program launched last fall, the city’s 911 dispatchers are now directing a team of mental health professionals to certain calls alongside police officers.
Amy Radil
What's behind Downtown Seattle's slow pandemic recovery?

Downtown Seattle is struggling to return to pre-pandemic form.
Libby Denkmann

Joshua McNichols

Hans Anderson
Is downtown 'revitalized'?

Downtown Seattle was arguably the hardest-hit area during Seattle's lockdown as workers fled offices. As the rest of the city returned to its normal bustle, downtown lagged behind. City and county officials made it a priority to revitalize the area. But how well is that revitalization going? Seattle Times Business reporter Paul Roberts gives us a temperature check on the state of to
Patricia Murphy

Clare McGrane
This water taxi captain prevented a runaway barge from ramming into downtown Seattle. Here's his account

Captain Dan Krehbiel was steering a water taxi boat from West Seattle on Thursday when he spotted a runaway barge -- a six-story wall of steel containers -- headed at a clipped pace of the Great Wheel and the Seattle Aquarium. What follows is Krehbiel’s account of what happened.
Patricia Murphy

Jason Pagano

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