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Bill Radke talks to KUOW Reporter Carolyn Adolph about the meeting between local businesses and the city of Seattle this afternoon, to discuss the stalled…
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The bloom is off the boom.That’s the message Ben Noble, director of the city’s budget office, gave Seattle City Council’s finance committee on April 30,…
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Around Seattle, you might think more workers are getting hurt given that construction is booming.Turns out, the opposite is true.Construction worker…
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Let's say you owe me $20.You decide that to pay me back, you'll set up a lemonade stand. There's about $50 in overhead: lemons, sugar. And don't forget…
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The Seattle area needs more housing.There’s not enough construction workers to build all the houses we need.Meanwhile, ex-prisoners have a hard time…
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Construction on the first phase of the Space Needle's Century Project will be complete in May of 2018. When the project is done, the 55-year-old landmark…
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The downtown Seattle tunnel that will replace the Alaskan Way viaduct is edging closer to completion.The upper level of the double-decker highway is about…
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Yellow and orange cranes loom over Seattle’s landscape like an army of gentle dinosaurs. There are so many of them here that listener Ben Lang had this…
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The last recession is long gone, but jobs still haven’t recovered in two major sectors. Both are tied to that last big bust: construction and financial…
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Mark Adreon’s guide dog is a yellow Lab named Trek."As in Star Trek,” Adreon said. “Trek and I have been working together since Sept. 1st."Adreon is…