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The Jeff Bezos-backed glassware company is planning to open a store and hot shop inside Amazon's developing Denny Triangle campus, records show: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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The companies plan to open a 5G innovation lab based at T-Mobile's Bellevue HQ, according to an application filed with the state. The lab includes an accelerator set to accommodate as many as 115 startups by 2021. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Google filed building permit applications in Kirkland after a commercial real estate company estimated the company would soon have 1 million square feet in the city. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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T-Mobile's Sprint deal is a turnaround for a company with a history of failed merger attempts – and that's good news for Bellevue. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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ReachNow has just confirmed the closure and cuts. It has 75 employees in Seattle and Portland. Half of them were laid off today and the offices will close within the next few months.

ReachNow is shuttering operations and laying off employees, sources say: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…



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On the day Seattle repealed the head tax after protests from Amazon, a small city in Alabama passed its portion of one of the largest incentive packages Amazon has received for a fulfillment center. This story is the result of my reporting trip to Bessemer, Alabama.

Amazon prompted raucous crowds to erupt in two American cities on the same day last June. The reasons couldn't have been more different. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…



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"I would be lying to you if I said that this was not an emotionally difficult decision," Cray CEO Peter Ungaro wrote in a letter to employees after the company announced plans to be acquired by HPE for $1.3 billion. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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I’m heading to Alabama for the next week for a reporting project about Amazon and economic development.

When Amazon decided to open a fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama — a once-thriving steel town still recovering from decades of industrial job losses — Mayor Kenneth Gulley told us residents were in such disbelief that they called his office asking if it was a hoax.



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More than 35 percent of Amazon's U.S corporate employees now work outside Seattle, significant as Amazon reshapes the distribution of its workforce by expanding in other cities: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Seattle seems an unlikely hotspot for a federal program designed to encourage investment in economically depressed areas. Yet EB-5 immigrant investors in Seattle projects commonly receive a discount intended for struggling inner cities and rural areas. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Frederick Darren Berg – the man behind the largest Ponzi scheme in Washington state history – may have fled to South America: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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T-Mobile CEO John Legere defended the company's $195,000 in spending at a Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. in letter to U.S. lawmakers obtained by the Business Journal: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Amazon's expected Bellevue office footprint will give it enough space for 25,000 employees: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Honeywell's Renton office will close by the first quarter of 2020, the company confirmed. A source said Honeywell could cut 150 jobs in the closure: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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One former Redmond-based AT&T employee said cuts in recent months feel like a "mass exodus." bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Facebook signed a 13-year lease for the 316,000-square-foot Block 16 in Bellevue's Spring District, according to a lease memo I obtained: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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A Microsoft employee paid five figures to start knocking down the company's original campus: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Job postings provide insight into Amazon's Bellevue expansion: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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A group of real estate attorneys are leaving Foster Pepper for Stoel Rives, the latest in a series of departures from the firm in recent months. One source says more Foster Pepper departures could be on the way. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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Nestle confirmed it's opening its U.S. coffee headquarters in Seattle and has also opened a Seattle office dedicated to Amazon: bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…


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