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It was, as the local public radio station said, the day “Seattle Nice” died. On May 2, the residents of Seattle were hit with a one-two punch. For months, the city council had been debating a new tax on large employers to raise $75 million for new affordable housing and services for the homeless, whose growing population had burst out of shelters and into tents around the city.
A commercial real estate company's brokers have identified more than 500,000 square feet of pending WeWork deals on both sides of Lake Washington.
Amazon has partnered with major homebuilder Lennar to create "Amazon Experience Centers," which are model homes containing built-in Alexa-controlled appliances. The goal is to persuade homeowners and homebuyers to embed Amazon services into their houses.
An Australian company built a brick-laying robot it says can build a home in a fraction of the time it takes a normal construction crew.
Fastbrick Robotics’ Hadrian X, which works off of a 3D model, can lay more than 1,000 bricks per hour, Business Insider reported.
As competition for employees and ideas increases, employers are looking to office design to give them an edge. That’s why companies like Amazon, Google and Samsung have asked us to create spaces that directly affect how their employees think and feel. Our research over the past four years has shown how design affects human biology and experience, allowing us to maximize comfort and productivity....
Coworking has proven to be more than just a fad, as WeWork turns into a global empire and regional operators expand their fields of influence, but it has lost the scrappy underdog feel that made it appeal to its first members.
Four months after Amazon opened its first futuristic convenience store in its hometown of Seattle, the company said on Monday that it will bring new Amazon Go locations to San Francisco and Chicago later this year.
A new entrant to the boutique hotel game, Life House, has completed $40M in funding to develop its brand. Of the funding, $10M in venture capital will fuel operations and the tech platform, while $30M in real estate capital will support the development of the first few properties in the U.S.
New York City officials have chosen to stop worrying and love the blockchain. Their counterparts at the state level, however, still haven't unchained their hearts.
The city's Economic Development Corp. announced today that it will open a Blockchain Center, where believers ...