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13th of December 2016

Seattle City Council Rent-Control Runaround

The Seattle City Council continues its streak of government-intrusive policies, on Monday unanimously passing restrictions on how much landlords can charge tenants for move-in costs. You can read all about it in The Seattle Times: It’s not rent control, which state law prohibits Seattle from enacting. But City Councilmember Kshama Sawant thinks this ordinance is the […]


21st of November 2016

Economic Profile: Washington State Convention Center Addition Project

Today we're out with an Economic Profile paper on the Washington State Convention Center addition project in downtown Seattle. Some highlights: WSCC intends to construct an additional convention building (the Addition), which would roughly double the amount of space available to host conventions. The project would span three blocks in downtown Seattle near the current […]