In its first foray into the Central District, South Lake Union developer Vulcan Real Estate paid $30.9 million this week for large parcels of land that bracket South Jackson Street on the east side of 23rd Avenue South.
For all the huge numbers the Seattle e-commerce giant sports, one that jumps out is the number of employees — 230,800 at the end of 2015. It speaks to how the company has become an employment powerhouse with wide-ranging economic impact.
Local officials have released results from their assessment of The Jungle, a Seattle homeless encampment where two people were shot to death last month.
The strength of anti-establishment fervor faces a twin test Saturday, with Donald Trump favored to win the GOP primary in South Carolina and Sen. Bernie Sanders battling Hillary Clinton for supremacy in Nevada’s Democratic caucuses.
